We’re excited to welcome Courtney Hanlon to The Up Group as an Associate.

Courtney brings a breadth of experience across executive search and leadership advisory, with a strong focus on technology and high-growth businesses.

We’re delighted to welcome Rosie Samuels and Steph Tyrrell to The Up Group, joining as Head of Marketing & Growth and Head of Events.

On a characteristically wet and windy British morning, we traded laptops for wellies and headed to the Surrey countryside for Up’s first-ever team retreat.

Mental Health Awareness Week took place from 9th to 15th May. Organised by the Mental Health Foundation, this year’s official theme was ‘loneliness’.

At The Up Group, we are proud to be supporting Hope and Homes for Children, an international charity working to stop the institutionalisation of children. They close orphanages, support care reform and help overhaul child protection across the world.

This year’s theme for International Women’s Day is “Choose to Challenge” encouraging us all to challenge gender bias, celebrate the achievements of women, and raise awareness on the issue of women’s equality.

A Tech Nation report on diversity in technology revealed that only 19% of the tech workforce are women, with 77% of director roles filled by men.

Over the past decade, Europe's tech sector has come of age. Visionary founders, vibrant venture investors and seasoned executives have combined to create over fifty unicorns, from Barcelona's Glovo through to Munich's Flixbus. Several FinTech’s could soon be decacorns, with both Revolut and Klarna boasting valuations north of $5bn. And from Just Eat through to Farfetch and Zalando, plenty have gone public.

The Up Group is a proud supporter of International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women - while also marking a call to action for accelerating gender equality.

charity: water are one of our partners, along with BEAM who we make part of our day to day work with each other and with our clients.

The Property industry is taking a hard look at itself in the mirror as it imminently faces the question of how technology can help alleviate its legacy problems. The archaic structures of the sector now stand primed for change as innovations in blockchain, AI and big data begin to be leveraged to automate traditional paperwork, processes, governance and regulatory frameworks.