Kirsty founded Mastella Search and runs the business day to day. She has spent the last 25 years in technical recruitment, and has personally placed more than 500 hires across the full breadth of engineering organisations.
Kirsty has also recruited leadership successors for owner-led and family-owned businesses. Those appointments include chief executives, managing directors and finance directors hired ahead of a sale or an ownership transition, where the brief is to take over work the owner has been doing personally. Most of that work is confidential, which is why it does not appear on a client list.
Her technical recruitment work covers the full range of engineering roles, from field service engineers and shop-floor technical hires through to engineering managers, heads of engineering, and engineering directors. It is the kind of range that only comes from putting the time in — and it is what lets her calibrate a brief quickly and read a candidate honestly.
Every engagement she takes on is run by her, end to end. Brief, search, shortlist, offer, onboarding. There is no resourcer layer to hand it to, and there is no plan to add one.