About Artemis

Sarah Orange

Sarah Orange is the founder and Managing Director of Artemis Human Capital and oversees both the Executive Search and Professional Recruitment divisions. Sarah specialises in private sector C-Suite appointments within scaling businesses and has a particular interest and expertise in Private Equity and Venture Capital back businesses or those wishing to embark on fund raising. This is due, in part, to her focus on succession planning and growth strategies.

Sarah works across the UK and the island of Ireland on retained appointments.

With an educational background in Psychology, Sarah places a huge emphasis on the grey area of cultural fit. An accredited user of personality profiling instruments and an associate member of the British Psychological Society, Sarah is uniquely placed to assist with business-critical assignments where ‘fit’ is paramount.

Sarah McGimpsey

Sarah is an Associate Director with over 20 years experience within the local recruitment market.

A Graduate of the University of Glasgow, she began her career working for a large PLC recruitment company, specialising in all aspects of the Construction, Property and Engineering market before moving into Executive search.

Sarah has worked with many of NI’s Top 100’s as well as SME’s. Taking a partnership approach with clients, her focus is on C-Suite, Senior Management and Leadership roles. With a collaborative, open and transparent approach she seeks to fully understand their business, growth ambitions, culture, and values. She is especially adept at pinpointing key talent in Operational, General Management and Commercial Roles.

Professional Accreditation:

AESC accredited in Executive Research

Accredited in Thomas International Personality Profiling

MA Classical Civilisation

Adam Myles

Adam is an Associate Director within Artemis Executive Search, having worked within the senior finance market for 6 years before making the move across to Executive Search. Adam specialises in MD, Finance, Sales, HR & Marketing.

Adam was a Management & Leadership Development graduate of the University of Ulster before making the move into the recruitment industry.

With a passion for building long term relationships, Adam gets to the heart of what his clients both want and need; with an eye on the future, he assists them in finding the very best talent to drive their business forward.

Professional Accreditations:

Accredited in Thomas International Personality Profiling

Laura Haggan

Laura Haggan has almost 18 years of recruitment experience, offering a specialist understanding of the Accountancy and Finance market in Northern Ireland. Laura is also a respected recruitment partner to her clients in Financial Services, Banking and Insurance.

Laura heads up the Finance team, playing a strategic role in realising our ambitious growth plans. Laura leads a team of seasoned Recruitment Consultants within Accountancy & Finance with combined experience of approximately 50 years within the local market.

Laura and her team work to help clients make the most of their investment in people through growth strategy planning, skills identification, remuneration advice, succession planning, identifying training needs and talent maximisation.

Stephen Cunningham

Stephen Cunningham is a Recruitment Consultant who specialises in Senior/ Qualified finance appointments within Industry. He has a demonstrated history of working in fast paced sales environments before moving into Recruitment. Skilled in Negotiation, Sales, Recruiting, Financial Services, and Finance, he has developed key relationships with some of the top companies in Northern Ireland by focusing on cultural fit and emotional intelligence, and therefore often gains exclusivity on some of the latest jobs to market.

Dean Patterson

Nicola McCallum

Nicola McCallum is an Associate Director, specialising in Part Qualified and Transactional Accountancy recruitment for Artemis right across NI.

Nicola, a Law Graduate from Queens University Belfast, has a recruitment career spanning over 18 years in the local Accountancy market. She is passionate about people, with a naturally consultative nature and unrivalled knowledge of the Northern Ireland Accountancy sector.

Nicola works closely with her candidates placing them in roles that launch and continuously develop their Accountancy careers. She works in close partnership with businesses, helping them to make the right hire, as well as assisting with building succession planning & talent pipelining into their Finance teams.

Kelsey Rouse

Kelsey Rouse began her recruitment journey within the Accountancy and Finance market and is continuing to focus on both qualified finance and transactional support roles in Artemis Human Capital.

Kelsey is originally from Strabane but is now based in Belfast and enjoys assisting clients with those hard to fill finance roles across the province, specifically concentrating on the counties of Tyrone, Derry/Londonderry, Armagh, Down and Fermanagh.

The accountancy and finance market in Northern Ireland is buoyant and Kelsey is delighted to continue to work in partnership with candidates and clients across the province.

Marc Norton

Marc is a Recruitment Consultant with 2.5 years’ experience focusing on the senior finance and accountancy practice markets within Northern Ireland. At Artemis he is now focusing his recruitment on senior finance roles within the three northern counties of Antrim, Tyrone, and Derry/Londonderry.

Before joining the recruitment industry, Marc gained a BA in Psychology and a MA in Communication from Oakland University in the United States.

Beth Gault

In 2020, Beth graduated from Queen’s University Belfast with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Beth then went on to pursue & achieve her Masters of Science in Marketing from the University of Ulster in 2021. Beth started her recruitment career in the Summer of 2021, initially looking at part qualified & transactional finance within Industry.

Beth specialises in accountancy practice & financial services recruitment, providing a consultative and partner led approach to both her clients and candidates throughout Northern Ireland.

Beth recruits at all levels across Audit, Accounting, Assurance, Tax, Corporate Finance, Insolvency & Restructuring, Transaction Services, Deal Advisory (M&A), Financial Services, Transactional Finance, and finance professionals within the Private Equity/Venture Capital industries.

Ciara O’Connor

Ciara, originally from Dublin, has been recruiting in the local market since 2019. She now specialises in Legal Recruitment, expertly handling positions ranging from qualified to support roles across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Ciara works closely with both leading global firms and smaller local Law Firms, helping them to attract the top legal talent across the island of Ireland.

Ross Winning

Ross is an experienced Recruitment Consultant with over 2.5 years of dedicated expertise in the Belfast legal market. Specialising in connecting top talent with leading legal firms, Ross has successfully partnered with a diverse range of clients, from international Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) companies to prominent local practices.

Before joining the industry in 2022, Ross gained a MA in Business & Management from the University of Glasgow.

Leon McHugh

Leon McHugh began her recruitment journey within the Accountancy and Finance market back in 2015 and now focuses on HR Recruitment in Artemis Human Capital.

Leon, a blow in from Dungannon has been living in Belfast for 18 years and enjoys assisting clients with those hard to fill and niche HR roles across the province.

Leon has made strong relationships within the HR business community and understands HR plays a key role in developing, reinforcing, and changing culture in an organisation. The importance of finding the right candidate for the right role is always at the forefront of her mind.

Nicky Strutt

Nicky is a Senior Recruitment Consultant who has spent the last 7 years recruiting into the Banking & Financial Services industry before making the transition to Business Services support to assist a range of NI based clients from SME’s, Start-ups, Global FDIs, and multi-national corporate clients.

Nicky holds a REC Level 3 Certificate in Recruitment Practice along with a Level 4 Certificate in Leadership & Management, which elevates his partnership approach when assisting candidates and clients within their recruitment journeys. 

Nicky’s area of recruitment specialisms are from Assistant to Director level across:

• Sales/ Business Development
• Marketing
• Procurement & Supply Chain
• Operations/ Business support

Kirsti Doherty

Kirsti, is the longest standing member of the team at Artemis Human Capital and is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day running of the business.

Kirsti is highly organised and extremely efficient, possessing a great eye for detail and offers vital support to the whole team. Kirsti comes from a diverse background, having gained a wealth of knowledge within both accounts and human resources (in which she holds a CIPD qualification).

Kirsti’s role at Artemis Human Capital is extremely fluid, and continues to evolve as the business progresses and enters new geographies.

Danielle McIlveen

Danielle joined the business in 2021 as Executive Assistant to Sarah Orange and has seen Artemis through significant growth. Since then her role has evolved, and she is now in the role of Business Improvement Manager. Danielle’s role will heavily focus on Business Improvement through systems and internal processes. She will focus on driving the business forward and work closely with our marketing department.

Having previously worked in the recruitment sector as a Senior Recruitment Consultant within Business Services for over five years, Danielle brings a wealth of recruitment knowledge along with expertise within the Business Operations sector.

Dawn Lowe