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“At Livingston James, we are more than the sum of our parts”
Collectively we can offer the strength and depth of service that makes us a leading executive search and leadership advisory business.
Together, we bring extensive and far-ranging experience across sectors and geographies.
We believe that our consultants’ understanding of how business operates at the highest level gives us an edge in the recruitment marketplace. For our clients, we offer an insight into the challenges they face and the goals they aspire to.
In our collective drive for excellence, every individual within our business knows that there is more to learn. From Director or Consultant to Administrator, we believe we have assembled a team with the diligence, initiative, and inspiration to make a lasting impact for clients and candidates alike.
Meet the team...
Interested in joining our team?
Please take a look at our careers page and get in touch to find out more. We’d love to hear from you.
Steven Davis
Non-executive Director
Steven has over 35 years’ experience in retail, FMCG and financial services, in the UK and abroad. Over the past 20 years he has held senior executive roles in HR, retail operations and change management. Prior to building a portfolio career, Steven’s final executive role was with Sainsbury’s Bank, where he also sat on the Sainsbury’s Group HR Executive.
Steven is a Non-Executive Director of Peter Vardy, Scottish Ballet, Philip Kingsley and Skipton Group, where he also chairs the Remuneration Committee. He brings a wealth of experience in strategy, change leadership and building strong colleague and customer propositions. He is particularly passionate about creating environments where organisations can realise their full potential through their people.
Steven is from Scotland and enjoys making the best of all that Scotland has to offer both indoors and outdoors. He is as excited to be roaming the Scottish countryside as he is the National Galleries, or indeed, indulging in good local restaurants.
Craig McDermid
Non-Executive Director
A Chartered Accountant, Craig is an experienced corporate investor with a career in private equity, M&A advisory, banking and family offices. Following a successful exit with Murray Capital in 2015, Craig was keen to build a portfolio of non-executive roles. Passionate about family business and growth orientated companies, he is fortunate and privileged to now work with several such businesses across a range of sectors.
His experience brings Livingston James a unique and extremely valuable perspective on the process of identifying and attracting leadership talent for private equity and family office investors, as well as access to an extensive network of contacts.
Outside of the professional world, Craig has a passion for sailing, is a keen golfer and has developed a love of road cycling during an ongoing midlife crisis!
Craig is also a trustee of Cancer Support Scotland and the Murray Foundation.
‘We are here to advise and support people and organisations to realise their potential so that together we can impact lives and communities for the better’
Consultant Spotlight – Douglas Adam
Douglas has over 20 years’ experience in the recruitment industry. He joined Livingston James in 2014 to establish our Public and Not for Profit service offering, and specialises in executive search.
Together we achieve more.
Livingston James Group comprises two bespoke sub brands: Livingston James – our executive search and leadership advisory practice, and Rutherford Cross – our specialist finance recruitment practice. This wider group structure complements our robust search and assessment process, allowing clients to access our deep-rooted network and expertise.
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