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Make hiring decisions backed by data.
Whether you’re entering a new market, building a new team, or planning for growth, we turn complex talent data into clear direction. Combining market intelligence, compensation
insights, workforce planning, and talent expertise. We help you understand where the right talent sits, what it will take to attract them, and how to scale successfully. The result? Smarter hiring decisions, stronger talent strategies, and fewer costly mistakes.
Modern hiring requires more than recruitment alone.
We combine embedded talent partners, employer brand support, and AI-enabled hiring infrastructure to create a talent function that is aligned, scalable, and built around your business. The result is a hiring model designed to support growth as priorities evolve.
AI-powered talent intelligence, sourcing, and engagement. The Book combines proprietary technology with experienced talent expertise to help teams move from brief to shortlist faster.
Powered by market intelligence, AI-driven sourcing, and personalised engagement, it gives talent teams the insight and support they need to make better hiring decisions.
Build an employer brand people believe.
We help businesses uncover what genuinely makes them a great place to work and turn it into a compelling employer brand. Combining employee insight, data-driven strategies, and creative execution. We create employer brands that connect with candidates, strengthen engagement, and stand up at every touchpoint.
Before founding Chapter 2, Leo was responsible for the international expansion of the fastest growing and most disruptive marketing services agency of the decade. With a relentless passion for tackling challenges and scaling businesses, he offers a holistic perspective on talent acquisition, harmonising both human and business aspects. Launching Chapter 2 seemed like a natural progression after his position as Global Chief Operating Officer at OLIVER, designing and scaling teams for brands such as Unilever, KPMG and Starbucks.
Steven Bartlett is an Entrepreneur, speaker, investor, author, Dragon on Dragon’s Den and the host of Europe's leading podcast 'The Diary of a CEO'. With notable investments including Huel - UK's fastest growing e-commerce company internationally, and Zoe - the personalised nutrition programme created by the world's top scientists. Previous investments include The Healing Company, atai Life Sciences, Alto Neuroscience and AbCellera. Steven co-founded Flight Group - a media, marketing and investment company consisting of Flight Fund, Flight Ventures, Flight Story, Flight Studio, Flight Talent and Flight Tech.
With extensive experience in the financial and professional services sectors, Mel is best suited to advising founders, executives and boards on strategic people matters. Her focus is on M&A, talent management, and technology integration. Having led International People teams, Mel is known for her innovative thinking and ability to build high-performing teams.
Soeren has been a Board Advisor to Chapter 2 since 2023 and supports the German and wider continental European business. During his extensive career, he has led Talent Acquisition Teams and organizations in Executive Search, RPO, consulting, eCommerce, and blockchain technology, delivering thousands of hires per year.
Raffael has 25+ years of experience building, transforming, and monetising global brands and businesses, with a track record spanning brand-led growth, M&A, and value creation. As a former CEO and regional leader across global advertising, data, and technology groups, he has driven P&L growth, organisational restructuring, and market expansion across multiple continents. As Chapter 2's Operating Partner for Brazil, Raffael leads go-to-market strategy, embedded recruitment models, and operational governance. He specialises in market entry and building scalable business models in complex markets, connecting clients to the talent ecosystems that deliver results.
Brad is Co-Founder of Chapter 2 Talent US, leading the company's expansion into the American market. He met Leo Harrison in Jersey in 2020, where they began shaping the company's operating model together, and joined Chapter 2 formally in 2021. As Managing Partner for EMEA, Brad led the development of Chapter 2's AI proprietary talent platform, the company's growth strategy, and its international expansion — including launching and scaling the German entity as Managing Director — before being appointed Co-Founder of Chapter 2 US in 2024 following Steven Bartlett's investment.
With 17 years of experience building innovative solutions for clients, Sophie leads the Sales function of Chapter 2. Her main focus is winning new clients whilst growing and enhancing the company’s presence, however, in her spare time, she also organises world-class events for Chapter 2.
David is an executive talent acquisition leader with over 25 years of experience building and transforming hiring functions for some of the UK’s most complex organisations. He has held senior in-house roles at Ocado, Boots, and Kingfisher before moving into consulting and advisory roles and he is now a Managing Partner here at Chapter 2. David leads the Transformation & Advisory practice, working with clients on hiring strategy, capability building, process optimisation, workforce planning, and IR35 compliance. His approach is grounded in the belief that recruitment done well is a strategic advantage, not a transactional service. He writes and speaks regularly on talent strategy, skills-based hiring, and the evolving role of AI in recruitment.
I am the Head of Growth at Chapter 2, supporting the company’s expansion across Europe and advising ambitious businesses on how to scale high-performing talent functions. I bring 17 years of experience across GTM, sales leadership, talent solutions, and venture-backed startups, with a track record of building revenue engines and selling into high-trajectory scale-ups and Enterprise markets. I hold a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and an Executive MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology.
With over 15 years of experience, Kelly is the Finance Director at Chapter 2. She oversees all global financial reporting, governance, and compliance requirements across the company’s international entities, ensuring robust controls while supporting the rapid pace of growth. With a keen eye for detail and a strong commercial mindset, Kelly is a trusted business partner to the management team. She provides strategic financial insight, drives performance through data-led decision-making, and helps shape the financial framework that enables sustainable expansion.
Nick has spent over two decades shaping how companies build their employer brands. He led award-winning teams at specialist agencies ThirtyThree and Tonic, collecting RAD Awards, RMAs and CIPD accolades for a variety of clients including McDonald's, the Met Police, PwC, EDF Energy, Rolls Royce and Vodafone. He then took that craft in-house, building Wayfair's employer brand across Europe and Asia, launching new markets where the consumer brand didn't yet exist, before taking a senior brand role at Bumble. Now at Chapter 2, Nick is building out employer brand as a service, helping clients tell stories that pull talent toward them. With a firm belief in using AI to accelerate creative output, he brings a rare mix of agency craft and in-house pragmatism to one of the few RPOs treating brand as core to its proposition.
With more than 25 years of experience in Talent Acquisition, Toby has delivered projects internationally, across multiple disciplines. As Operations Director at Chapter 2, Toby ensures our clients have access to the right people and technology to deliver exceptional results every time.
Chapter 2 are passionate about the evolution of recruitment and talent acquisition. We are loyal to our clients, company vision and each other - working together and supporting one another. We are united and relentless in our drive to deliver results for both our clients and ourselves. We are comfortable with uncomfortable conversations. Honesty and communication are the backbone of everything we do.
With 17 years of experience building innovative solutions for clients, Sophie leads the Sales function of Chapter 2. Her main focus is winning new clients whilst growing and enhancing the company’s presence, however, in her spare time, she also organises world-class events for Chapter 2.
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