London, England, United Kingdom
Alistair is the former Chief Executive of Hays plc, the leading global recruitment agency, having held that position from September 2007 until September 2023. He is a Chartered Engineer, having graduated in Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Salford and holds an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business in California. He began his career at British Aerospace, subsequently moving to Schlumberger in 1982 where he held a number of roles in field engineering, management and research science based in Europe and the USA. After graduating from business school in 1991, he was a manager at McKinsey & Company before joining Blue Circle Industries plc (latterly Lafarge) initially as Group Strategy Director and latterly as Regional Director for Asia, based in Kuala Lumpur. Returning to the UK in 2002, he was appointed Chief Executive at Xansa plc, the IT outsourcing organisation before joining Hays in 2007. He also served as a non-Executive Director at 3i plc from 2009-2015, as a non-Executive Director at Just Eat plc from 2017-2020, as non Executive Chairman at BIMM 2016-2022 and currently serves as a non-Executive Director at Relx from April 2023.
Hays is the market-leading recruiting agency for professional, technical and qualified skills worldwide. Employing 8000 experts across 33 countries, we help over 60000 professionals per year find their next permanent job and over 300000 contractors find their next assignment