Dev / Tech recruitment

Paul Church

Managing Director

Location: London

Paul joined the Group as Managing Director of ECOM and InterQuest Specialist Staffing in June 2019, bringing with him 11 years’ experience working his way up the ranks in one of the most established recruitment companies in the world. He has a very strong reputation in the Tech Recruitment industry, having built his network and his brand on trust, integrity and transparency. As well as defining a concrete presence in niche, talent short markets, he has built and led successful teams who follow his ethos.

Hiren Vekaria

Associate Director

Location: London

As Associate Director for the Technical Team at ECOM, Hiren manages the contract recruitment for a range of Software, E-commerce, FinTech & Digital companies and supply them with exceptional candidates as well as managing a team of consultants.

Hiren specialises in contract roles for web, software, and mobile developers as well as QA’s and senior level technology focussed candidates. Hiren's in-depth knowledge of the market gives him unparalleled access to leading organisations and sought after candidates.

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Rob Sugden

Practice Director

Expertise: Senior Appointments

Location: Manchester

Rob is ECOMs Director for Manchester. He leads our teams across the North & Midlands operating in Digital Tech, UX & Design, Product & Project and Marketing & eCommerce. He’s had over 15 years of recruitment experience in Manchester, building an extensive network. Over the years Rob has created a reputation for working with the best candidates and the most interesting companies! He’s passionate about Manchester’s digital scene and has loved being part of its ever evolving journey. Outside of work when he’s not spending time with his family, he can be found Rock Climbing or enjoying Manchester’s amazing music scene.

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Joe Parker

Associate Director

Location: Manchester

Joe has worked at ECOM since 2012, he’s one of the founding members of the Manchester team and has progressed all the way from Junior Consultant to Associate Director.

As an Associate Director, he’s responsible for both leading a team of recruiters and helping Manchester’s most recognisable tech brands to build their software engineering teams, with a focus on modern Microsoft, JavaScript and Cloud technologies.

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Gareth Pike

Software Engineering Recruiter

Location: North West

Gareth Pike is a Principal Consultant at ECOM who specialises in the Software Engineering sector across the North West of England. This is Gareth’s 14th year in the recruitment industry so he has definitely been around the block! Over the past 5 years he has focussed on helping organisations with their recruitment of Open Source software engineering candidates, predominantly across the Java, PHP and Python technology stacks. Gareth graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a degree in Information Technology Systems which has definitely helped him throughout his IT recruitment career. In his spare time Gareth has a very busy family life being the dad to two sports mad young boys Leo & Zac, which involves lots of homework duty and being a part time football coach! Aside from family life his other major passions are following Man United FC where he is a season ticket holder and raising funds for Motor Neurone Disease which is charity close to his heart. Gareth feels integrity is one of the biggest things people should demonstrate in and out of working life and prides himself on this.

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Arun Dey

Delivery Consultant

Location: Manchester

Arun joined ECOM in December 2020 as a Delivery Consultant. He has over 6 years’ recruitment experience, including over 4 years’ recruiting software and technology professionals across the Manchester tech market.

As a Delivery Consultant, Arun finds DevOps experts for both new, exciting start-ups and some of the region’s most recognisable brands.

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Marcus Gray

Associate Consultant

Location: London

As a Tech Recruiter at ECOM, Marcus looks after the Permanent recruitment for a range of Software, E-commerce, FinTech & Digital companies and supplies them with industry-leading talent

Marcus specialises in Perm roles for web, software, mobile developers as well as CTO and Head of Engineering placements. Marcus' in-depth knowledge of the tech market gives him access to find exceptional candidates across his clients.

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Tommy Wilson

Principal Consultant

Tommy has 6 years experience in contract recruitment across the UK & Europe. As a Principal Consultant he’s responsible for helping Software Engineering teams deliver on their business requirements by finding the best contract and interim talent. With a focus on the placing Software Engineers and DevOps/Cloud professionals.

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Josh McLean

Principal Consultant

Location: Manchester

Josh has worked with ECOM since 2021, he has joined with 6 years’ experience recruiting in the Software Engineering space.

As a Principal Consultant he’s responsible for helping experienced software engineering professionals find new permanent roles in Manchester with a focus on Web, Mobile, Digital and Social technology.

He supports the growth of Manchester’s most recognisable tech brands build software engineering teams with a focus on modern Microsoft, JavaScript and Cloud technologies.

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Karolis Lari

Associate Consultant

Location: Manchester

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