About Us
Leith Associates are a specialist consultancy focused exclusively on technology recruitment across the UK and Gulf Region. Leith Associates offers a unique approach to recruitment within Technology sector with a collective 35 years of global recruitment experience across our leadership team as well as a dedicated account management and resourcing team to ensure that our client’s requirements are met with the highest levels of quality, within deadlines and with a competitive cost structure.
Our talent acquisition team has experience both in recruitment and in technology with our Talent Director having worked in recruitment both in consultancy and client side with some of the most notable recruitment agencies and major, multi-national technology businesses.
What makes Leith Associates different?
Working with Leith Associates would give you the type of integrated recruitment partnership that you would expect when engaging an executive search firm. However, we offer a different approach with regards to our service offering making this high level of service both affordable and tailor-made to your business.
Meet the Team
Meet the experienced and dedicated team behind Leith Associates.
Gemma Gibson
Talent Acquisition Director
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people" (Theodore Roosevelt). This statement along with trust has been the foundations of my success throughout my career.
My name is Gemma, and I am the Co-Founder and Talent Acquisition Director for Leith Associates. I was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland. Since graduating from Edinburgh Napier University in 2005 with a BA (Hons) in Business Management, I travelled and worked in various countries including Spain and Australia before moving to Dubai, UAE in 2012. I feel very blessed to be happily married and have three beautiful boys who are my World and my greatest achievements to date.
Over the last decade, since joining the recruitment World, I have had a complete holistic view of recruitment. I have worked; agency side in both the UK and across the GCC doing IT and Banking Technology; internal for a major conglomerate in Dubai; and for a leading RPO company where I was contracted into Mastercard to handle the recruitment for the Innovation Labs then Advisory business for the MEA region. It was meant to a 3-month contract. I stayed 18 months!
Then COVID hit, my contract was cancelled, and I completely reevaluated what was important to me - doing a job I love but, on my terms, and balancing that with home life. It was then that I decided to start my own business.
Leith Associates is a boutique recruitment company which we set up in early 2021 to disrupt the real estate and property development sectors within the UAE. We have gone from strength to strength and are now branching out into new markets and territories which is really exciting! Going back to my routes in IT, we are going to be focusing on Technology and Digital across the GCC & UK.
Kiran Laeeq
Recruitment Consultant
“If you are looking for the top talent or the top employer, I would be your go to person here at Leith Associates! My passion for my job is fulfilled when I help professionals get their dream jobs and employers with their best employees”
My name is Kiran, and I’m a Recruitment Consultant at Leith Associates. I joined the growing team of Leith Associates 4 months ago. I am a graduate of London School of Economics and Political Science. I have 8+ years’ of recruitment experience with demonstrated history of working in the Construction, Telecom and IT industry partnering with top tier clients like SAP, KPMG, Capgemini, Roche, Honeywell, SABIC, Haribo, du, CISCO, Microsoft and Etisalat across regions in ME, Europe and Asian. I am highly skilled in full recruitment cycle, executive search, talent pipelining, high volume recruitment, headcount planning, recruitment process building, excellent candidate management and high-level stakeholder management.
Jyoti Kumari
Recruitment Consultant
After earning my master’s degree in HR & Finance from India, I entered the world of Recruitment out of my service-oriented mindset and that led to my first job as an Executive - Talent Sourcing back in New Delhi, India in 2011.
In Dubai, I started my international career in 2014 with an International Executive search firm and then it kept moving and I am carrying over 8 plus years of experience in Recruitment where I have worked from junior to C-suite level jobs diversified in myriad of verticals which includes IT, Non-IT, IT Sales, IT Infrastructure, Oil & Gas, Healthcare, Finance, Marketing, Management, Real Estate, etc.
Learning something new (experience or skills) through interacting with different people and job orders on a daily basis make me love my job the most.
I am a Mum of a five-year-old Angel and outside my work I love exploring new places, travelling, spending time in nature, practicing yoga, swimming, reading, and writing my small personal blogs.
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