Sam Wilkins

biography

Sam Wilkins is a Principal Consultant and co-leader of the firm’s UK practice along with Kevin Elderfield, driving executive search and human capital and recruitment process consulting and advisory work primarily in the UK and Western Europe. Sam’s clients are information intense businesses, consistent with his roots in software, telecom and professional services, including technology as well as strategy and performance consulting. With 12 years in recruitment, and about a decade in retained executive search and recruitment process outsourcing, Sam has a proven track record with successful search completions and consulting engagements for many of Europe’s and North America’s most prestigious companies such as BT, KPMG, SAP, Microsoft, Shell, as well as multiple searches for smaller niche firms..

Before becoming a part of Leadership Capital Group, in Sam’s most recent endeavor, he was a founder, Director and head of the executive search business for Quorum International, a well-known European-based executive search and recruitment process outsource company which he helped grow from 4 to 160 people in 16 countries over nine years before the company was acquired in April 2008 by Kenexa (NASDAQ:KNXA).

Sam has a degree in International Business and French from Plymouth University. He resides in Dartmoor, U.K. with his wife and two children.