Organisational Development: Project managed significant company restructure to enhance effectiveness and increase profitability. Recruitment / Resourcing: Successfully fulfilled ambitious headcount growth plans at low cost while maintaining high quality. Established in house EMEA recruitment function resulting in reduced costs and reduced time to hire. Succession Planning and Talent Management: Introduced and embedded systems to facilitate development within and across departments and to enable strategic 3 year headcount and structure planning. Performance Management: Designed and delivered training and upskilling plan to increase salesforce effectiveness. Employee Relations: Developed innovative and successful retention and engagement strategies for high performing employees. UK Employment law: Successfully advised and undertaken numerous disciplinaries through to dismissal and resolved significant grievances. International: Operational experience spans UK, BeNeLux, Nordics, South Africa and Middle East. Management experience of France, Spain, Italy, Germany and Switzerland. M&A: Significant experience of Due diligence for UK in particular. Led cultural and business Integrations pan EMEA ensuring retention of key employees.

HR and Talent Acquisition Director, EMEA @ From August 2014 to Present (1 year 5 months) Reading, United KingdomHR Director, Northern and Southern EMEA @ Responsibilities expanded to include Nordics (Sweden, Denmark and Finland) and S. EMEA (France, Italy, Spain and Middle East.) From March 2013 to July 2014 (1 year 5 months) Reading, United KingdomN. European HR Director @ Business Partner to President, EMEA and VPs: Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, Professional Services, Pre-Sales. Operational HR responsibility for c. 600 employees in UK, BeNeLux and South Africa. From April 2011 to March 2013 (2 years) Reading, United KingdomNorthern EMEA HR Manager @ Maternity cover contract. Full HR responsibility for UK, SA and Northern Europe and HR Business partner to VP, Sales. Established in house EMEA recruitment team. From October 2010 to April 2011 (7 months) HR Manager @ Initially joined as UK Recruitment manager and quickly progressed to HR manager. Experienced significant growth and contraction of the business over 8 years. From August 2002 to June 2010 (7 years 11 months) Manager @ Set up and established Reading office of independently owned financial recruitment consultancy From 2001 to 2002 (1 year) Manager @ Progressed from Graduate trainee to Manager of the Reading office, leading a team of up to 8 consultants. Experienced at all levels of recruitment from graduate to finance director. From 1996 to 2001 (5 years)

BSc Economics, Economics @ University of Bristol From 1993 to 1996 Caldicott From 1987 to 1992 Darryl Freedman is skilled in: Employee Relations, Organizational Development, HR Strategy, Talent Management, Performance Management, Succession Planning, Employee Engagement, Talent Acquisition, Team Management, Recruitment/Retention, Strategy, Personnel Management, Human Resources, Recruiting, Management, Executive Search, Strategic Planning, Training