About Us

Bosshunters is a boutique recruitment business, providing senior executive and non-executive recruitment expertise.

Before establishing Bosshunters, Dr Elizabeth Haywood spent seven years as Managing Director of kmc, an international recruitment company specialising in scientific management and regulated industries.

Elizabeth is a graduate economist from Cardiff University with a PhD (Politics) from Swansea. Following an early career in the European Parliament in Brussels and Luxembourg, and in trade publications in the USA, she gained management experience at the Welsh Development Agency in Cardiff. As Director Wales for the Confederation of British Industry, she developed senior contacts in a wide range of businesses in Wales and throughout the UK and had a good deal of exposure to the media as the organisation’s spokesperson, which continued in her next role as Communications Director for the Association of Train Operating Companies, ATOC.

She was named Welsh Woman of the Year in 1994, is a Board Member of the Wales Millennium Centre and a member of the Ministry of Defence’s National Employer Advisory Board. She received an Honorary Fellowship from the University of Wales Lampeter for her contribution to business, and was Regional Chair for the Clydesdale Bank 2005-08. She is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce, and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

Current and recent clients include Newcastle Science City (Chief Executive); Vale Healthcare (Chair); Finance Wales (Chair); Maritime & Coastguard Agency (senior team); Community Pharmacy Wales (Director); The Russell Group (Head of Communications).