Testimonials & Clients

Since launching in 1993, The Salamon Company has worked with a wide variety of organisations.

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Justin Sampson

CEO

BARB

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We appointed The Salamon Company to find our Head of Data Science, which was a new and critical high-profile hire. It has been a transformational time for BARB and we now needed a trusted industry data expert for our industry stakeholders and to help us grow our business. Given the overwhelming multitude of so called “Data” experts out there, we needed an expert filter to ensure that we identified the right level of senior talent. Julie really listened and, having lived and breathed the media industry for 3 decades, she really understood our brief. With her vast network of contacts from her database, she limited the recommendations to a very tight shortlist, which saved us valuable hours of interview time, and quickly found an excellent heavy weight candidate for the role. Julie was committed and focused from start to finish, offering valuable advice along the way, and we are now all thrilled to be on-boarding our new hire.  

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Paul Golliker & Charlotte Hill

Founder & Director          |           Executive Assistant

RED APPLE CREATIVE 

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We appointed Julie and the team at The Salamon Company to work with us across a number of roles in our business and it has been a breath of fresh air to deal with an agency that is so efficient, organised, and on the ball with the recruitment process for particularly niche positions. Julie has been there every step of the way from start to finish and supported us with helpful advice, suggestions and insight and has breathed new life into a process that we found very time consuming from our side. She has helped to handle unexpected situations within the process of recruiting for certain roles and been a star in terms of negotiation along the way. It has been great to work alongside an agency that can help save us so much time in terms of the screening process and that delivers quality candidates of a very high calibre that continually hit the brief.

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Anna Foot

Senior Vice President – Media & Marketing Solutions, International –  DOW JONES

COO – DOW JONES 

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We appointed The Salamon Company to work with us on a new senior role for the WSJ Barron’s Group in EMEA in the programmatic space. The brief was filled swiftly, within 4 weeks. Julie is well connected, negating the need to spend precious time interviewing lots of candidates. She hit the nail on the head in terms of our needs and we appreciated the filtering and interviewing that she did behind the scenes which was extremely thorough and saved us valuable time. Julie also gave us early valuable advice on the job title and job description to ensure we attracted the right calibre of candidate. She subsequently handled the delicate negotiations skilfully to ensure we got this valuable candidate to an offer stage.

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Chris White-Smith

COO – 72POINT LTD

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Having worked with Julie and The Salamon Company previously but in a different sector of the Marketing and Media industry, it was a pleasure to work with her again in the Content marketing space.

Largely due to a fantastic interpretation and understanding of my brief, Julie hit the mark immediately with a candidate who was a perfect fit, both operationally and culturally for the team.

I would not hesitate to recommend to anyone searching for senior level appointments in the marketing, media or content space, to make immediate contact with Julie.

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Francesca Taylor

Strategist, Government Communications – GLOBAL

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I recently, and successfully, worked with The Salamon Company to secure my newest role, moving from Media Agency side to a senior Strategy role Media Owner side.

I wasn’t actively looking and had enjoyed eleven successful years at Carat so it was important for me to make balanced judgments on my career path.

I valued Julie’s opinion and knowledge to enable me to make this exciting new stage happen. She has been discreet, guiding, encouraging, thorough and utterly professional throughout. She has an intuition for identifying the right client-to-candidate matching characteristics yet allows natural, organic development of new introductions. I would highly recommend Julie and the Salamon Company to anyone seeking solutions to a senior role opening.

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Ed Pizey

Group Data Director – WAVEMAKER

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The advice and guidance given by the Salamon Company is best in class. Julie ensures that her candidates are fully prepared for the interviews, providing timely feedback to ensure a positive performance.

I would be delighted to recommend candidates to Julie, as I know they will be treated professionally and put forward to the right roles for their career.

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Ailsa Mackenzie

Head of Strategy (Joint) – GLOBAL

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I first had contact with Julie a couple of years prior to my move to be Head of Strategy at Global Media and Entertainment. From the outset she really took the time to meet with me and discuss my skills in depth, and what I was looking for from any future career moves.

The roles she was recruiting for at the time weren’t quite right for me but we developed a longer-term business relationship and she remembered my interest in exploring a move from media agency to media owner side and later got back in touch when she had a good match.

She clearly has very strong relationships with the companies and candidates she works with and was very helpful and supportive throughout the process, even arranging for me to speak with someone she had previously placed at the company to help me get a real human understanding of what it was like to make the move. I would wholeheartedly recommend working with Julie and The Salamon Company.

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Marisa Ambersley

Former Strategy Director – MEDIACOM (now Head of Strategy – BPN MENA)

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When I begun actively looking for a job I had conversations with several recruiters, but Julie stood out from the very beginning.

Julie approaches clients in a careful and considered manner, devoting time and thought to provide an excellent service. She has a great understanding of the media industry which was evident in the way she was able to identify and represent my skills and career interests to successfully match me to the right role and cultural fit. She offered really sharp advice and even sent interesting articles in preparation for the interviews. Julie was a pleasure to work with, and I would highly recommend her.

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Lori Suchcicki

Senior Vice President, Advertising, EMEA – BBC WORLDWIDE

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I worked with Julie on my most recent appointment as VP Advertising Sales at BBC, and she is by far one of the most knowledgeable and professional recruiters in the industry.

Julie provided support and services above and beyond the call of duty, honoured my time and took the time to get to know me beyond my CV.

Our process together led to a successful employment result in a brilliant international role that is perfect for me. Julie clearly has long term, trusted relationships with companies and vast industry knowledge. As such, the insight she is able to provide to prospective candidates and employers is invaluable. Julie would no doubt be my first port of call for employment or for candidate recruitment.

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Rob Elms

Former Sales Director – JCDECAUX AIRPORTS (now Sales Manager – Quantum)

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Working with Julie was an absolute pleasure – her skill set matching and quality of opportunities available are so good that the first role she put me forward for I got!

I came from a media agency and then print/digital sales background, which set me up for the Sales Director position at JCDecaux Airports, where the explosion in digital OOH is now a key factor in sales and development.

Throughout the entire process Julie was there for whatever I needed, whether it was information about the role, interview guidance or feedback at every stage. Julie is very easy to get along with and is the consummate professional. She comes highly recommended.

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Charlotte Treanor

Senior Business Development Manager – CEDAR COMMUNICATIONS

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After a fantastic three years at TIME I was considering new opportunities and Julie was recommended to me by a friend. Professional from the outset but with a kind and thoughtful approach, Julie was determined to find me the ideal role. It is clearly very important to her that she finds the right job for the individual but also the right individual for the company that is recruiting. Any role that Julie informed me about was closely aligned to what I was looking for and I never felt, as you often can with other recruitment agents, that she was trying to push a role on me that didn’t fit in with my aspirations.

She was extremely attentive throughout, offering second to none advice on interview and presentation techniques and thorough feedback at every stage of the interview process. She found me the perfect role at Cedar Communications and I’m now enjoying a dynamic and challenging position on the British Airways Media team. I can’t recommend her enough!

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Lisa Walker

Former Managing Partner & Head of MEC Play – WPP (now Head of Media and Sponsorship – Vodafone)

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Julie Salamon approached me for a role with a top 5 WPP Media Agency, which offered a great opportunity for me as a Managing Partner and a chance to take my career in a new direction.

She knew exactly what her client wanted and her search criteria matched their requirements with my experience. I was able to add a different perspective coming from the Client side rather than the traditional Agency side.

With her extensive knowledge of the media marketplace, Julie was very thorough in her briefing and ensured the recruitment process moved continuously and smoothly. When I was offered the role, she was very honest and realistic in salary negotiations. I even received follow up contact to see how I was settling into the job! I would recommend Julie Salamon to any prospective employer or candidate.

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Maxwell Brown

Former Group Head – COLLECTIVE.COM (now Commercial Director & Head of Sales – MOBSTA)

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Julie and The Salamon Company were a great help to me when looking to make a move into the digital space.

Julie understood exactly what I was looking for in my next career move and really helped me identify the right opportunity for the next step in my career, an opportunity I would have been much less likely to come across through my own contacts.

I would have no hesitation in recommending Julie to others in the future.  Julie understood exactly what I was looking for in my next career move and really helped me identify the right opportunity for the next step in my career, an opportunity I would have been much less likely to come across through my own contacts. I would have no hesitation in recommending Julie to others in the future.

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Richard Jacobs

Former Marketing Director – WPP KINETIC (now Director, Marketer, Strategic Communication specialist – British Army Officer)

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The Salamon Company has a long term approach and I have worked with them for many years and more recently was approached for a Marketing Director role at WPP’s Kinetic.

This was one of several exciting senior level propositions from The Salmon Company and was the one that I really wanted. It entailed helping to take Kinetic through a step change as the Digital age transforms the OOH market. Julie guided and supported me through the whole process in the strictest of confidence with productive feedback and good industry knowledge.

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Carolyn Gibson

Former EVP – BBC ADVERTISING (Now Chief Revenue Officer – Euronews Group)

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The Salamon Company had been on our PSL since 2000 and had recruited a range of high calibre staff from Account Managers/Directors and Business Development Managers for the UK and Global markets. They have particularly provided me with a hassle free, high level of personal service and attention, making it a seamless easy recruitment process. The high quality of candidates ensures that there is minimal time spent interviewing so there is no time wasting that we get from a lot of other recruitment specialists.

As TSC has worked closely with us and developed a shorthand, it has enabled them to find people that will fit culturally into the team. The candidates they have supplied are all still with us and leading different teams across the division – creating and sustaining our growth and success. TSC also provided us with a competitive market audit based on their extensive market knowledge, which was extremely useful at a time of internal restructure.

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