The people behind Humand

Joseph Edney

Managing Director

Founder and MD of Humand Talent Solutions. Joseph leads strategy, key client relationships and the long-term vision for the business - building a search partner Oxfordshire's deep-tech community actually trusts.

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Jamie Kennedy

Client Solutions Director

Jamie heads client solutions, shaping how Humand partners with scale-ups and primes across AI, quantum, optics and advanced engineering. He owns commercial strategy and senior stakeholder relationships.

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Katy King

Candidate Operations Manager

Katy runs candidate operations — the experience every engineer and scientist gets from first message to first day. Process, care and the details that make a search feel human.

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Adrian Taylor

Senior Talent Scout

Adrian leads deep sourcing across hardware and physics-heavy disciplines — optics, lasers, metrology and instrumentation — mapping the specialists who don't answer generic InMails.

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Jess partners with clients end-to-end across software, AI and data — from role scoping through offer. Known for shortlists that are short, relevant and closable.

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Nav keeps searches moving — coordinating interviews, feedback loops and offer stages so clients and candidates never wait on us.

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Eleanor scouts across software, product and data, building long-term relationships with engineers well before they're actively looking.

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Poppy McNamara

Talent Scout

Poppy focuses on emerging talent across AI, data and software — mapping the next generation of specialists joining Oxfordshire's deep-tech ecosystem.

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Miranda Mxatule

Talent Scout

Miranda (Talent Scout) helps source talent for our clients by having conversations with tens of people every day, pitching our clients' businesses and helping candidates apply. She's a lovely person to guide candidates through the process, and cares about her candidates deeply.

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