Our Management Team
Education Placement Group has a talented and experienced Management Team at the helm, working across all the brands in the company. Our strategy is to recruit the very best people in their fields, regardless of where they are based. This ‘digital nomad’ strategy means we have become a recruiter of choice for leadership positions.
Julian Harley
Chairman
Julian Harley is an experienced entrepreneur, CEO and PE Chairman in the areas of Education, Recruitment and Training. Following his establishment of Harley-West Training in 1991, which grew to become the UK’ s 2nd largest provider of Corporate IT training, Julian honed his expertise within the education sector, focusing on the provision of recruitment and training services to schools. His Education portfolio also consists of being CEO of Spring Education, founder of TeachLondon in 2001 and Chairman of Education Personnel. Julian is currently Chairman & NED for EPG and other businesses in the education arena.
Robyn Johnstone
Group CEO
Robyn Johnstone co-founded one of the first UK education recruitment businesses in 1995 having first worked as a teacher and senior leader in schools in Australia and the UK. Robyn has been involved in the sector for over 25 years and during this time managed start up education companies as well as several mergers and acquisitions in this space. Robyn is passionate about education and firmly believes that customer service and innovation is key to delivering dynamic staffing solutions for schools in today ’s market.
Garry Clarke
Group CFO
Garry is an experienced CFO, with a background in Corporate Finance at Deloitte LLP and two previous Finance Director roles for fast-growing and dynamic businesses. Garry has experience of a range of M&A, due diligence and restructuring assignments across a number of sectors and has led finance and operations teams through major change projects. Garry is a Fellow of the ICAEW. Garry joined the business in Nov-19, and since then has played a pivotal part in helping to drive the next phase of development of EPG.
Caroline Cafferty
Managing Director
Caroline Cafferty has worked within the education recruitment sector since 2001. During this time she has grown her career in this field from recruitment consultant to her current role of Managing Director at justteachers. Caroline was an early part of the management team that grew justteachers into being a highly respected business acquired by EPG. Caroline works closely with the board of EPG and continues to play a pivotal part in the delivery of growth across the Group over the coming years.
David Jones
Group NED
David Jones has worked within public sector recruitment for over 20 years. He spent 5 years as MD of a UK market-leading medical recruiter, before becoming a founding director and shareholder in justteachers.
He led the growth of justteachers into a highly respected, region-specific organisation that continues to deliver exceptional customer satisfaction focusing on safeguarding and robust margin gains.
After selling his majority holding to EPG, David has reinvested and now holds a NED position within the Group.
He led the growth of justteachers into a highly respected, region-specific organisation that continues to deliver exceptional customer satisfaction focusing on safeguarding and robust margin gains.
After selling his majority holding to EPG, David has reinvested and now holds a NED position within the Group.
Emma Roberts
Group Overseas Director
With over 20 years experience in the Education Recruitment industry in both Australia and the UK, Emma brings a wealth of experience to EPG. This includes extensive experience in sales, resourcing, marketing and data analytics. Emma is based in our Australian office and oversees the international resourcing operation. Across the group she is involved in driving business improvement in a number of key areas including; developing and managing marketing strategies and creating performance metrics on our CRM to maximize business outcomes.