Recruitment Agency Expo 2027 Exhibitor List

CEO of FCSA, leading the UK’s most recognised compliance body for temporary labour.

Bobby Banerjee helps recruiters hire better humans and lead with more honesty, authenticity and empathy. He created The HAPI Test to help teams understand behaviour before someone joins and not just how they work, but how they think, cope and communicate under pressure. He created The Recruitment Curry Club, a community for anyone within the Recruitment Sector who want real conversations, not just sales tactics, which is now operating in 5 countries in the past year. Through Elev8 Learning and MILO, he supports recruitment teams with the tools (and headspace) to grow properly. Bobby’s passionate about behaviours part of how we talk about hiring and leadership.

With over 10+ years of experience in the RecTech industry, Peter van Spaandonk has a clear drive: to optimize existing HR/recruitment processes with new technology. Peter was responsible for expanding Harver in the USA, a data-driven hiring platform for volume recruitment. Today, he is responsible for the international growth of Carv, An AI solution that automates administrative tasks for recruiters, allowing them to focus on human connections.

Simon Bliss is Chairman of TEAM, the UK’s largest network of independent recruitment businesses, and a passionate advocate for helping recruiters grow stronger together. A former agency owner who scaled his own firm from a small micro business to a multi-million-pound exit, Simon now works with hundreds of recruitment leaders to drive collaboration, profitability, and smarter ways of working in a changing market. Known for his straight-talking, high-energy style, Simon champions practical growth from job-sharing and community-led business development to helping solo recruiters and SME agencies compete at a bigger level. His focus is simple: build a recruitment industry where independent businesses don’t just survive, they thrive.

Having exited his recruitment business in 2025 after 25 years in the industry driving growth, profitability, and high-performing teams, Matt now works with recruitment leaders to apply lived, real-world experience. He advises founders and directors at every stage of the business lifecycle - from start-up to scale-up to sell-up, providing brokerage and practical, actionable advice to help them build stronger businesses, avoid common pitfalls, and make better long-term decisions.