John-Paul Eaton

Tech Recruitment 🪡 | Community Leader 🤗 | RegTech Advisor 🤖 | FinTech Ambassador 🤩

London, England, United Kingdom

About

"Jp, why did you decide to become a recruiter?" 🤨 I have been asked this question many times and here is the short answer.... Philosophically, it fits well, at my core, I like to clear the path for people and organisations. Helping any entity realise the next steps of their potential makes me very happy! 🫶🏼 Here is the long answer a bit of background for ya.... Gone are the days of being intrigued by anti-financial crime! I am now fully submerged in the industry! 🧜🏼‍♂️ After a decade of serving the anti-financial crime community, to create immersive and engaging environments to educate and connect industry professionals 🕵🏻‍♀️... ...I now leverage my extensive experience and my unique skill-set to connect top talent for leading FinTech and RegTech companies 🔎. As a trusted recruiter, I specialise in roles for anti-financial crime professionals and go-to-market positions, helping organisations discover great people to drive their mission forward. ⏩ To guide me on my journey, and to offer the best experience for clients and candidates alike, are my '5L's' and my values: ✨ Learn: Be curious and playful, strive to become more resourceful and flexible. Always give yourself options. ✨ Listen: Listen to others to understand how best to communicate, build rapport and to maintain positive personal and professional relationships. ✨ Lead: Lift up those around you, inspire success, promote creativity and remove limitations and obstructions. ✨ Laugh: Laugh with others and at yourself to energize and motivate. ✨ Live: Live in the moment and enjoy the variety of life. ✨ Be resourceful and achieve your potential. ✨ Everyone has value and everyone values themselves. ✨ Promote transparency and collaboration to achieve more. ✨ Offer freedom and responsibility. ✨ Be flexible and create options. ✨ Have fun and reward measurable performance. ✨ Engage, support, and invest in others. ✨ Be socially, environmentally and economically conscious. ✨ Grow through purposeful practice, challenging yourself and feedback. ✨ Enjoy why, how, and what you do. Check out my experience below for a little more insight and if you have liked what you've read, please DM me! 💌 Eagerly waiting to explore how I can clear your path! 🙌🏼

Experience

  • Head of UK at Needl
    Nov 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

    Bringing Needl to London! 💂🏼 Trusted and well-known for clearing the path for others to flourish. I am now using my unique flair to help FinTechs and RegTechs discover talent and talent to find their next happy place! 🫶🏼 That sounds great, yet how am I different to other recruiters? 🤨 "Jp, you know people beyond their CV; it's a massive asset" Most recruiters have a database, I have a community. 🤗 As suggested by one hiring manager, I know my community beyond their CV's to ensure I source the best candidates not just from a competency perspective, yet equally as important, from a cultural fit perspective. 🤝🏼 Don't believe me? Here are the words of one FinTech Founder... "Thank you so much for always sending us super stars 🙏🏻" Less about me, more about Needl... A VC-trusted tech recruitment firm, head quartered in Dublin, with a global network specialising in helping organisations scale their teams. 🇮🇪 The team in Dublin are a class apart, and have the reputation and track record serving tech firms that other agencies aspire too. 🙌🏼 If you feel I can't help you, please still reach out, as they can! 🤩 Either way, drop me a DM now! 💌

  • Founder at Pink Cap Advisory
    Nov 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

    If you know me, you know what I do! 😉 If you don't.... Pink Cap Advisory allows me to share my experience and knowledge of empowering communities of professionals with others. 🤗 Curious to explore what we could achieve together? 🤔 Be inquisitive, drop me a DM! 📬

  • Senior Trainer at Raising Your Game
    Jan 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 6 mos

    Raising Your Game is a Training, Coaching and Consultancy company offering business and personal solutions to enhance performance, facilitate change and create lasting results. We provide public behavioural change workshops, tailored corporate workshops, personal performance coaching and consultancy services to businesses with the intention to change direction and/or improve employee performance. As we all know, the one constant on this rock flying through space is ‘Change’. The difference that makes the difference is our ability to support others and offer interventions to become more aware of the choices available and take purposeful action to deliver results.

  • FINTRAIL (London Area, United Kingdom)
    • Global Community Director | FINTRAIL & FinTech FinCrime Exchange
      Dec 2018 - Oct 2023 · 4 yrs 11 mos

      “We believe that all companies should have the opportunity to thrive, free from the threat of financial crime” The Global Community Director is central to the achievement of FINTRAIL’s mission and vision of preventing the spread and furtherance of financial crime. Responsible for ensuring the global members of the Fintech Fincrime Exchange (FFE)and wider anti-financial crime community feel they are deriving value from FINTRAIL and the FFE. The Global Community Director is the central point of coordination, bringing together the variety of actors in the anti-financial crime arena to agree on initiatives to prevent, deter and detect financial crime. FINTRAIL provides clients, who operate across the global financial services ecosystem, with access to a new, agile, energetic form of financial crime risk management. This requires a different approach, one that is not simply a box-ticking compliance process or regulatory burden, but one that puts commerciality and intelligent risk management at its core, and something that is vital to businesses of any size. The FinTech FinCrime Exchange (FFE) brings together a global network of FinTechs to collaborate on best practices in financial crime risk management. By sharing information on criminal typologies and controls, FFE members help to strengthen the sector’s ability to detect and counter the global threat of financial crime, including money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery and corruption and tax evasion.

    • FFE Conference Manager
      Aug 2018 - Dec 2018 · 5 mos

      “We believe that all companies should have the opportunity to thrive, free from the threat of financial crime” The FinTech FinCrime Exchange delivered an immersive experience that offered attendees the opportunity to engage with survivors of criminal activity, bringing to life the real cost of financial crime and connecting delegates to why their work matters. Industry experts, including CEOs from some of the world’s leading FinTechs, shared their insights and experiences, providing actionable takeaways and practical solutions to empower delegates to thrive. The conference brought together a vibrant international community of FinTechs, creating an interactive platform that encouraged collaboration and the discussion of best practices, actively enhancing the resilience of the industry.

  • Senior Advisor at ACRONYM Consulting AB
    Jun 2018 - Sep 2018 · 4 mos

    Acronym Consulting AB offers specialized consultancy within Anti-Financial Crime (AFC), forensic services and internal audit. The company also offers a wide selection of "on-the-job" training sessions in all topics related to AFC to the financial industry - from board members to compliance officers and all other relevant staff members.