Glenda Hogg
Glenda has been identifying game-changing leaders for CEOs & Funds for over 25 years. She led 2 successful exits from companies that she founded within the Talent sector – one via an International trade sale & the other via an MBO. She has both bootstrapped & raised external funding. At the Science & Technology Park of the University of Girona, Spain she was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Corporate Venturing Programme advising start up & early stage growth companies on the composition of their board & driving growth through internationalisation. As a Founding Partner of Up Catalonia in Barcelona Glenda selects portfolio companies and mentors their Boards.
In addition to identifying game-changing C-Suite hires for key Kommol clients, Glenda will be leading our Joint Venture with E-Resourcing, who are an innovative, award winning IT Recruitment Specialist providing the services of permanent recruitment, contractor recruitment and other flexible outsourced resource solutions in the UK & Europe. This new service offering is in response to specific requests from Kommol clients, so many of whom are struggling to hire well at the developer to CTO level at the rapid scale required.
As a Talent Partner, Glenda is actively involved in strategic discussions regarding resourcing challenges and future planning. Additionally, she has taken on numerous mentoring and advisory roles.
Mel Homewood
Mel is a Senior Associate at Kommol, acting as an advisor & account manage to Founders and Investors and CEO’s across the VC and PE backed, high-growth companies as they navigate funding round closures, hyper-growth, strategic change and transformation.
Owning the search process end-to-end, from pitch to closure, across varied markets, Mel is committed to championing a diverse and inclusive workplace culture as a driver of success with a central focus on fostering teamwork, communication, and integrity.
Outside of work Mel actively seek out projects that contribute to a positive social impact through, mentoring and volunteering.
Michelle (Williamson) Milbourn
With experience in recruitment and executive that spans a whopping 20 years and three search practices under her belt, Michelle has developed a sixth sense for helping founders build teams made of the right stuff.
Michelle is passionate about putting her clients’ needs first, earning their trust, working to understand and define the particular challenges of each client by collaborating closely with founders and investors of fast-growth SaaS companies to help them build transformational leadership teams.
Michelle doesn’t see the executive search process as transactional, she believes in working with her clients round-to-round to help clients overcome the different set of challenges each growth stage presents. To date, Kommol has successfully placed candidates in over 150 VC and private-equity-backed (most commonly between Series A and series D funding round) European headquartered companies and has built a reputation as the search partner clients return to repeatedly as they grow their board and senior leadership teams.
Proud to be one of Notion Capital’s first strategic partners and part of Notion’s expert programme, Michelle and Kommol have now built strong relationships with many VCs across Europe. To stay on top of their field Kommol constantly tracks the trends and changing dynamics of leadership teams within the top 450 + SaaS companies in Europe. Michelle personally created and runs Kommol Core – our internal database tracking system building relationships with those individuals rated as game changing candidates within the European tech community. She tracks the most highly referred and ranked individuals across 6 role functions: CRO, CPO, CMO, CFO, COO and CEO – with a core focus on those that have led growth from circa $5m ARR to >$75m ARR, and those behind the most successful exits.
Michelle is also a regular speaker on the SaaS circuit and always welcomes new opportunities to talk about new trends in building the best leadership teams.
