Head of Mortgage & Consumer Finance Products

Having worked with the Team at Brightwater Executive on filling a number of senior roles in the past year, I would highly recommend them. They were very professional to work with throughout the process, providing a high level of service, and they successfully sourced high calibre candidates for us. They are passionate about finding people in professional services their perfect role and are committed to providing an honest and ethical service for the client, we were confident at all times that we only met candidates who truly met the job requirements

Nuala McGrath

HR & Corporate Services Manager, Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI)

I recently worked with Alan in Brightwater Executive and was successful in securing my role. I found Alan extremely professional and a massive support to me throughout the process. He went above and beyond to help me understand the information that mattered for the role. He was available whenever I needed him to feedback on my questions and was always the first to check in with me pre and post interview. I highly recommend their recruitment service to any business or candidate.

Brian Howe

At Construction Industry Federation, we used Brightwater Executive for recruitment of a senior Director position in the Federation. We found Brightwater Executive to be very professional, efficient and effective in sourcing suitable candidates for the role, in facilitating a quality shortlist of candidates for interview, and their assistance in the final selection process for the successful candidate.

Hubert Fitzpatrick

Chief Operations Officer, Construction Industry Federation

We have worked with Estelle Davis and Brightwater Executive for over 12 years now. A key part of our business strategy is the recruitment and retention of top talent and Estelle and Brightwater Executive have helped us achieve that. They have developed an in-depth knowledge of our business and culture over the years which has enabled them to consistently screen the market and put forward a shortlist of strong candidates. We are demanding and very particular as a client with a number of our placements being specialist roles which they were still able to deliver upon. They were also able to provide clear guidance on remuneration packages. I would have no hesitation in recommending Brightwater Executive and Estelle Davis.

John Calvert

CEO, BCP Asset Management

As a candidate, Alan provided me with an excellent level of support and advice in securing my new role via Brightwater’s executive search service. He dedicated time and interest to understanding the specifics of my skills and my overall fit for the position, while providing guidance as needed throughout the process. Alan was great to work with, friendly and professional - I would happily recommend Alan and Brightwater’s services to jobseekers or recruiters.

Meabh Smith

2022

I found the whole process with Brightwater Executive seamless from start to finish – right from Yvonne McNulty’s initial approach to me from about the opportunity, through to closing the offer. Yvonne followed up before and after each stage and her advices and support were invaluable in preparing me for my first interview for a new role in many years. I would highly recommend Yvonne McNulty as a savvy, experienced Executive Search Consultant whom I felt always had my best career interests in mind as well as meeting her clients’ requirements.

Aishling Deegan

2022

I have had the privilege of working with Estelle and the Brightwater Executive team to fill an number of Director, Head of Function level hires in multiple organisations over the years. Estelle is an exceptional senior talent acquisition partner who listens carefully to her clients needs, shares valuable and honest market insights, is exceptionally credible and has a superb breath of experience. Estelle's agile approach brings pace to the assignments and she has an incredible network that ensures she can deliver a portfolio of talent. Estelle works across so many senior role disciplines and has an unique understanding of cross functional team dynamics and interdependencies, an outstanding capability! Estelle is a fantastic listener, constructively challenges, and builds relationships to deliver success. Thank you Estelle for your hard work, dedication, tenacity and good humour on each journey, it was always appreciated and thank you for delivering on many assignments!

Geraldine Lynch

Global Human Resources Director

We first engaged with Brightwater Executive and Estelle Davis and her team in early 2022 when building out our new senior management team here in Dublin, all at CBI, PCF level hires. Estelle and her colleague’s deep technical expertise and industry knowledge in the payments sector was impressive, when hiring our compliance, risk, finance and audit roles. In particular, Estelle’s expertise in supporting and advising on job specs, her insightful and value add questions that supported us in profiling the ideal candidate fit for our new Dublin team build out, from both a technical and cultural team fit was second to none. She has deep expertise in recruiting for PCF appointments and her engagement style from client and candidate’s perspective is really seamless. We were delighted with Brightwater Executives’ ability to engage and identify strong candidate shortlists that offered great diversity, including local and international candidates. Our experience of the end to end recruitment process against all four PCF hires was very comprehensive and efficient and all our milestone time frames were met, in terms of hiring our new senior management team for our newly established Irish entity.

Stephane Pilloy

Chief Executive Officer – myPOS Ltd

We have engaged Brightwater Executive on a number of key senior hires for our team and have found them to be an excellent recruitment partner. Alan Finnegan was our lead partner on our recent searches, and we found their end-to-end engagement highly professional, collaborative, and seamless. He and his colleagues really took their time to understand the roles we were hiring for, appreciating our team dynamics, our culture and future strategy for our business and how this tied into the ideal candidate profiling. The quality of the shortlists received and high calibre candidates we met was a reflection of how well the Brightwater Executive team and Alan understood our requirements.

Karina Broderick

HR Director Supply Chain & Retail at Uniphar Group

I have worked with Estelle Davis in Brightwater Executive on a number of senior technical key hires over the years and I have always found Estelle’s deep understanding of the insurance sector and technical nuances across multi-disciplinary roles to be excellent. Estelle’s ability in asking astute and insightful questions around job specs, team profiling and culture dynamics along with her collaborate style when it comes to defining the ideal candidate profile is so valuable. Her network and industry connections are superb and has always stood to us well, when engaging with Estelle to secure our ideal candidate hires. She is someone who is fully committed to finding the ideal candidate for her clients, she is passionate about what she does and you can really see that through her engagement style, approach and professionalism.

Fiona Sage

Chief Claims Officer, Zurich (ZIP)