Alice Weightman

Alice is a global headhunter, entrepreneur and talent expert, Alice helps global businesses from brand names to tech start ups find and secure c-suite talent and build modern day marketing teams. She launched her first business, the executive search firm, Hanson Search, in 2002, and has offices in the UK, Europe and Middle East recruiting in communications and marketing around the globe. Seeing how the market was shifting and the rise of the freelance economy, Alice later launched The Work Crowd, using the power of technology to help businesses connect and manage the way they work with freelancers, transform the freelance side of the recruitment market and facilitate more flexible ways of working.
She is passionate about improving standards in recruitment and diversity in the workplace, being a fellow of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, member of 30% Club, honorary member of the Global Women in PR and an Ambassador to the Ideas Foundation. Alice was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year at the FSB London Business Awards and Digital SME of the year at the Digi Awards.