David founded Brooklands Executives Limited and has built the business into a market leader.

Prior to starting the company, David spent several years as one of the highest individual producers in the UK Interim Executive market where he trebled the size of one of the leading intermediaries, in just three years. David’s success was due in part to his 360 degree view of the Interim Executive market – he has operated as one himself, hired them and now places them with some of the world’s leading companies and brands.

David has held senior sales and marketing posts, general management and Managing Director posts in a range of major international businesses – United Glass, Reed International, Caddie SA, BUPA, Zenith SA, Chinacraft, and latterly Accor Corporate Services.

His international experience over many years of developing products and service solutions for Board Directors has seen him working in countries as diverse as USA, Denmark, Italy, France, Switzerland and the UAE to name a few.

When not working, David tries to grab some time at his house in Ibiza where he is battling blazing sun and scarcity of water to grow an almond grove.

Stephen is a founder member and Managing Director of Brooklands Executives. He brings a passion to our outstanding business process, focusing on quality and speed of response.

Following a classic sales and marketing career in industry and employee benefit business services, Stephen has held senior sales management posts for leading European companies. IDV, Accor and Gissings are just some of the leading employers he has been employed by in his career. Stephen heads up our Hospitality & Leisure, Food & Drink practice.

Stephen is a keen squash enthusiast and a leading light in the Wine Trade squash club. He also travels the world to watch England play cricket despite the fact the aura of his presence appears to be a handicap on many occasions. His daughter's horsebox can be seen on the highways and byways of southern England most weekends, sporting the Brooklands livery.

David has extensive knowledge of doing business in the Asia Pacific region. In particular having worked in China for a number of years he has built up a strong network of relationships and an understanding of that market with its particular customs and protocols. Publishing and event management are his areas of particular expertise.

At the weekends he can be found languishing on a remote Hong Kong island away from the hustle and bustle of the city and for longer breaks he has a mountain retreat deep in the Papua New Guinea jungle. How adventurous!

Simon joined in 2007 and brings 12 years of “search” (head hunting) experience to Brooklands.

He has worked across sectors, from software to retail, delivering senior management and board director positions across all functions from Sales and Marketing through HR and Finance to Development. Simon has carried out every role in a search business from researcher to trainer and senior consultant. He brings a robust knowledge of successful “search process” and a passion for delivering.

Rugby and skiing will always get an animated conversation going with Simon, as will Sri Lanka. After much research with his young family they have decided Sri Lanka is their favourite place to visit and much time is spent in planning for the day when they set off to find the perfect spot near Galle. Simon is based in the UK and travels to Asia.

Davy has extensive experience in a number of different sectors in the corporate world, from managing a call centre team to working for the London 2012 Olympics to running his own successful business. However Davy's main passion lies in HR and Recruitment. Having previously worked for Brooklands Executives in London, Davy has the knowledge and understanding of the company to transfer its innovative culture to new markets. Now located in South Africa, Davy has quickly established the firm as a thought-leader in the specific recruitment issues of Sub-Saharan Africa.

During the weekends, Davy enjoys spending quality time with his great family, walking his dogs and exploring the beautiful sites South Africa has to offer.

Clive has been providing interim manage-ment solutions to both public and private sector organisations for over 12 years.

His early career was built on a steel industry apprenticeship, a chemical engineering degree, and a progression to Plant Manager within Unilever’s food interests. His decision, aged 30, and with a young family, to embark on a self-funded MBA at London Business School proved a ‘life changing’ experience. Over the following 20 years his portfolio career encompassed Management Consultancy within PA’s General Management and Oil & Gas Divisions, Programme Management in the USA, Divisional MD of a quoted UK company, and leading a VC backed MBO/MBI through a turnaround!

Since moving into Interim Management in the mid-90’s, Clive has been a passionate advocate of the benefits interim managers bring to both public and private sector organisations. His first-hand experience of designing and delivering business transformation forms the core of his belief in the part interim managers can play in developing the professional skills within the client’s own core team to leave an enduring legacy. Clive leads our Public Sector practice as he has a long and successful track record in this arena and it optimises our Catalist / Buying Solutions accreditation as one of the few Government pre-approved suppliers of Interim Executive Management.

An avid scuba diver and nature lover with a pioneering streak, Clive organises and leads expeditions to increasingly far flung destinations ‘off the beaten track’. Now finally thawed out after diving with leopard seals and icebergs in Antarctica he’d welcome suggestions for 2010 – somewhere warm!

Martin has a wide remit at Brooklands and considers this the most fulfilling thing he has done in his career to date. In particular Martin finds immense satisfaction from the win/win situation when clients identify a need to fill an assignment or role and Martin delivers candidates that deliver.

Prior to joining Brooklands, Martin was General Manager of Doctors Direct plc, a company supplying private General Practitioner services to corporate clients and the public. Most of his working life however has been spent in the City at Lloyds of London. Having started his training in one of the bigger broking houses he, through a series of moves and promotions, became a Director of one of the medium sized broking houses. This has given him a wide experience of doing business on an international scale and dealing with a colourful and varied client base.

Outside the working environment Martin enjoys racing both horses and Formula 1. He confesses to a fondness for Arsenal, which provides an expensive and often disappointing enjoyment of sport. He also enjoys sailing and fine dining.

Mike Dodds is one of the leading Interim Management providers in the UK, having been the top consultant in three major companies.

After a successful career in senior marketing roles with blue-chip FMCG companies, Mike spent the 1990’s directing company turnarounds, from losses to profits, in different sectors. This in-depth and close-up experience at the management coal face helps him to understand the issues and opportunities facing many of today’s clients.

After a personal career spent achieving step-changes in the performance of a number of organisations, he is a passionate advocate of Interim Management. Mike’s clients particularly value his objective advice on when and how to use Interim Managers to get the most cost-effective benefits.

When Mike is not working, he escapes to his holiday home in south west France. The challenge is not so much a ‘Year in Provence’ but more like a lifetime in renovation! Mike looks forward to plenty more assignments to support the French building industry for years to come.

It was just over two years ago that Margaret joined the Brooklands team as Director of Professional Development. As a former Director of Right Coutts Margaret has over thirty years experience in helping organisations to improve effectiveness and maintain their competitive edge through the development of their people.

Margaret is experienced in the design and delivery of training and counselling, coaching and mentoring programmes to a wide variety of public and private sector organisations. The diversity of her portfolio is reflected in the cross-cultural teams Margaret has managed with projects in Western Europe, UK, USA, Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

The image of professional development being a “pink and fluffy” activity is far from the challenges that Margaret has overcome, for example
acting as a coach of choice for Chase in the Asia Pacific region; and designing an assessment centre process for a major UK FMCG company that enabled them to locate, assess and recruit twenty new graduates in the PRC.

When not clucking over her corporate flock, Margaret is a keen hen enthusiast.