Our Senior Management Team

With over 18 years of experience, Barbara McKiernan, Managing Director at VANRATH, is one of Northern Ireland’s leading and most respected recruitment professionals. With a background in finance and accountancy recruitment, Barbara has played a pivotal role in supporting the growth aspirations of NI’s business base by matching the best talent with local firms as they grow their teams. ​More re...

Damian, our Director of Temporary and Public Sector Recruitment, joined the VANRATH team in 2011 to set up the company’s temporary recruitment division, having specialised in this area across Northern Ireland since 2006. His team of over 20, sector-specialist consultants cover Accountancy, IT, Executive, Project Management, HR, the Built Environment, Business Support, Supply Chain and Science/...

​Matthew manages the IT team of Recruitment Consultants at VANRATH. With 6 years of IT recruitment experience and having previously worked in business development for 5 years, Matthew recruits senior IT professionals within the Industry and Commerce sector across Northern Ireland and is renowned as a trusted recruitment partner for the leading software houses, local IT start-ups and new FDI cli...

​With 15+ years' experience in the HR recruitment sector, Richard has placed HR professionals from Officer to Director level across Northern Ireland and the bordering counties. Richard is CIPD Qualified and now looks after internal recruitment with VANRATH. Richard is always keen to hear from anyone who would be interested in joining VANRATH. We have experienced teams across a range of discip...

​Having worked at VANRATH for over 10 years, Julie is responsible for managing business operations and large scale projects within the business. Julie also looks after the Marketing and Administration teams whilst establishing relationships with key groups and contacts within our specialist sectors and ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of the business.