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Marlow & Finch
About us

A regional consultancy
that does the work itself.

Marlow & Finch is an independent recruitment consultancy founded in 2008.

2008
Founded
4,000+
Placements
6
Consultants
3
Offices
Marlow & Finch office
Our story

Recruiting carefully,
since the start.

How we started

Marlow & Finch was founded in 2008 with the conviction that careful, specialist recruitment beats volume.

The deliberate decisions

We have grown carefully. Every brief is run by a senior consultant. We focus on a small number of sectors where we have material industry experience.

Where we are now

Today Marlow & Finch operates across Reading, London, Brighton with a tight team of consultants, working on permanent, contract, and interim placements.

The team

Meet
the consultants.

Every brief is run by one of the consultants below. The consultant who takes your brief is the consultant who runs your shortlist and your offer conversation.

Rachel Marlow
Rachel Marlow
Founding Partner — Commerce
Reading 18 years at Marlow & Finch

Co-founded Marlow & Finch in 2008 after twelve years at Hays. Leads the Commerce practice — sales, marketing, commercial, and general management appointments across the South East. The firm's longest-tenured client relationships are her own.

James Finch
James Finch
Founding Partner — Finance
Reading 18 years at Marlow & Finch

Co-founded Marlow & Finch in 2008. Leads the Finance practice — qualified and PQ finance appointments across permanent, interim, and contract. ACA-qualified, having spent five years in audit before moving into search. The thoughtful counterweight to Rachel's commercial instinct.

Priya Shah
Priya Shah
Senior Consultant — Finance
Reading 7 years at Marlow & Finch

Senior Finance consultant focused on the part-qualified and qualified end of the market — Management Accountants through to Senior Finance Business Partners. CIMA part-qualified herself, which informs the way she frames the candidate conversation. Joined Marlow & Finch in 2019.

Thomas Okonkwo
Thomas Okonkwo
Senior Consultant — Operations
Reading 6 years at Marlow & Finch

Heads Operations recruitment at Marlow & Finch — supply chain, logistics, production, and procurement. Eight years in industry before recruitment (warehouse management at DHL, then operations at Ocado), which informs the briefing conversation in a way most operations recruiters can't match.

Emily Clarke
Emily Clarke
Senior Consultant — Executive Support
London 9 years at Marlow & Finch

Leads the Executive Support practice from the London office. Specialises in senior EA, Chief of Staff, and Office Manager appointments across family offices, professional services, and private equity. The practice she built is now the firm's most profitable on a per-consultant basis.

Daniel Wright
Daniel Wright
Senior Consultant — Technology
Brighton 5 years at Marlow & Finch

Heads Technology recruitment from the Brighton office — software developers, technical leadership, and the small but steady stream of contract and interim technology briefs the firm runs each year. Self-taught developer before recruitment, with the unusual ability to actually read a candidate's GitHub.

Where we are

Three offices,
one consultancy.

Reading is our head office and where the firm was founded. London opened in 2014, Brighton in 2019. The three offices share clients, candidates, and the same standards.

Reading
Reading Head office
Trinity House,
80 The Forbury,
Reading RG1 3JH
+44 (0)118 401 4920
London
London
Hatton Garden Business Centre,
56 Hatton Garden,
London EC1N 8HN
+44 (0)20 8042 8200
Brighton
Brighton
PLATF9RM,
3rd Floor,
28 Kensington Street,
Brighton BN1 4AJ
+44 (0)1273 056 740
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