Simon Smith
Managing Director
With over 25 years of global recruitment experience, Simon is Managing Director at Kennedy Pearce and sits on the board, helping shape the direction and growth of our recruitment business. He leads on sales, operations and strategy, and plays a key role in developing long-term client partnerships, driving business development, and keeping our recruitment teams performing at their best.
Simon takes a hands-on approach and brings a huge amount of industry knowledge to everything he does. He’s passionate about delivering recruitment solutions that genuinely work for both clients and candidates. His personal focus is on placing Financial Controllers, Finance Directors and CFOs across the Commerce & Industry space.
Simon has worked with recruitment businesses of all shapes and sizes – from start-ups to multinationals – and has experience scaling, selling, acquiring, and seeing businesses through to successful transactions.
Outside of work, Simon’s a proud dad of four and a huge Leeds United fan.