December Members Meeting

Before Setting up TRS Media in 2022 Simon has over 20 plus years’ experience within the recruitment sector, the last 6 years coming as an Account Director with Totaljobs and Jobsite. During this time he looked after a lot of the major agencies in the North of England. He has experience of helping agencies of all sizes, from global recruiters to one person start up’s brand new to advertising. He has helped them purchase and optimise advertising that was right for their business.

Simon now specialises in working with recruitment agencies to help them achieve more with their advertising. Using a data driven approach to help recruitment companies understand, purchase and optimise their advertising spend. The use of the companies own data is key to ensuring they can do more with less.

Job Boards and advertising are often left alone until renewal, but having someone working with you to ensure their performance is constantly being maximised has a positive impact on candidate generation. Combining this to also having a media agency who specialises in getting the best possible packages and prices for their clients makes a massive difference to a recruitment business.

Simon is based just outside of Manchester and has been for the last 25 years but is originally from the Lake District so is no stranger to rain!

William Hobbs joined Barclays in October 2005, and is the Head of UK Multi-Asset Wealth Team for Barclays Private Bank & Wealth Management. William leads the team focussed on the core aspects of the Investment offering, setting the BUK Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA), Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA), Investment Philosophy and delivering Investment content. The CIO Team is the home of investment decisions which form and deliver our best thinking portfolios.

Prior to becoming The Head of UK Multi-Asset, William held the position of Chief Investment Officer for Barclays UK Wealth Management, a position he held from December 2018.

William is a fellow of the Securities Institute and has close to 20 years of experience in the financial sector. He has Masters degrees in International Business and Economic Development from Birkbeck, University of London and Economic History from LSE. He is also a Chartered Alternative Investments Analyst. William is a frequent contributor of economic and capital market’s insight to Bloomberg, CNBC and various other media outlets.