Ross Paton

CEO at Paton Personnel & Nomad Now: Digital platform for Recruitment of all Professionals at a fraction of the cost

Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia

About

NOMAD NOW: We launched a recruitment disruptor! www.nomadnow.co. Transact online directly with ALL Professional PERM & FLEXI talent. We intend being the SA recruitment-equivalent of an Airbnb. Save huge time & recruitment spend: 4% (flexi-staff) & 5% (perm). Nomad Now includes great features including Job Ads, Client and Freelancer Teams, deep & customisable search ability, Freelancer and Client ratings, direct correspondence with talent, mobile app, invoicing on behalf of flexi-workers. PATON PERSONNEL: After 22 yrs running Paton Personnel, focussed on specialised technical Recruitment, we have consolidated our position as a top talent supplier in Financial Services and beyond. I hope to continue as well-known and respected for our professionalism, accuracy and business integrity. I continue to mentor and technically advise our specialist consultants and very senior candidates throughout their careers. We have differentiated Paton Personnel by ensuring deep market knowledge amongst staff and therefore effective delivery in highly specialised markets. We launched the business in 1996, when we perceived the need for a more professional & technical solution in Financial Services Recruitment. Paton Personnel was founded on the premise that a specialist, offering a narrow range of highly qualified services could best serve the needs of clients in a manner that a generalist agency was unable to do, and this approach is more valid today than ever. Paton Personnel and Paton Training operate from the Paton offices in Hyde Park, Johannesburg. Speciality Fields: Professional Contingency Recruitment Technical Training Courses Key Sectors: Financial Services, Commerce & Industry, Parastatals Specialist areas: Investment Banking, Strategy, Accounts & Finance, Legal, Compliance, Co Secretarial, Credit & Risk, Human Resources, IT, Wealth Management, Coverage, Property, Logistics & Supply Chain, Engineering, Ops. C-Roles (CEO, COO, CFO, CIO, CTO, CRO, CLO) Related Businesses

Experience

  • MD at Paton Personnel
    Jun 1997 - Present · 29 yrs 1 mo

    Specialist provider of Recruitment and Training services. Impeccable 21 year track record plus extensive client base and large, qualified database.

  • CEO at Nomad Now: The Professional Freelancer Platform
    Oct 2016 - Present · 9 yrs 9 mos

  • Co-Owner at Thrive Cafe, Soweto
    Oct 2013 - Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    We created and built an ultra-modern cafe / restaurant in 2013 and opened in November. It was sold to a consortium of Private Equity investors in December 2015 who have now converted the restaurant to "Vuyos". Located in Vilakazi Street, one of the most historically significant streets of Soweto and which is steeped in history. Thrive was a stone’s throw from Nelson and Winnie Mandela’s first home and that of Archbishop Desmond Tutu and near the Hector Pieterson Museum.

  • Corporate Finance, Specialised Finance at Investec
    Jul 1989 - May 1997 · 7 yrs 11 mos

    Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Raising, Restructurings BEE Funding Specialised Finance (Project and Structured Finance)

  • Legal Advisor at Gold Fields of SA
    Jan 1987 - May 1989 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Commercial legal advisory