Meet the Team
We have many years of experience in guiding organisations to optimise their candidate and employee experience through process design, technology procurement, implementation, optimisation and team training.
We’re fascinated by technology and how it can transform candidate and employee experience, but for us, the process – and how it is managed – is just as important as the tools that you use.
And in a world where most of the advice you get is from people selling stuff, we're different. We are completely independent so you can rely on us for impartial advice.
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Founder and Managing Director
BEN JACKSON
Ben has spent more than 20 years in resourcing, HR and commercial roles leading talent teams at some of the largest names in the industry including Deloitte, Capita and Alexander Mann Solutions.
Brand Experience & Communications Consultant
NEIL HARVEY
Neil is a seasoned creative and has held a number of high-profile roles within London Advertising & Communications agencies including Creative Director with J. Walter Thompson London and Head of Creative for the UK & Ireland with TMP Worldwide and recently Founder and Executive Creative Director at Groupbrand specialising in Employer Branding, Internal Communications and Business Transformation.
Marketing Lead
KATIE DAVIES
Katie read History, Politics and Economics at UCL, graduating with a first. After a successful internship at Cogency, Katie joined the team permanently. She is a co-host of the podcast Law Talks.
Associate
JENNIFER KEMENY
Jennifer is an Associate at Cogency with extensive talent acquisition experience. Jennifer's current role involves supporting clients to build and transform their TA function, and she recently worked on an RPO implementation for a global oil and gas company.
Technology and Implementation Director
MATT JESSOP
Matt is a highly experienced director, innovator and subject matter expert within TA and contingent workforce technology solutions. He has a passion for data and analytics and their role in driving productive user behaviours. As comfortable getting his hands dirty and doing some configuration as he is devising total talent technology strategies, Matt is our go-to on all client tech projects.