Our management team has over two decades of internal and agency recruitment experience, combined with six years spent in HR and over 15 years in Marketing.

Managing Director, Martin Drake, set up Higher after years of being a frustrated ‘client’ and ‘candidate’ of recruitment agencies. With a background in HR as a Hiring Manager and as a recruiter in his early years, Martin grew frustrated with the poor level of service he received. After what felt like years banging his head against a brick wall, Martin had an epiphany. He took the frustration and exasperation he felt when dealing with agencies and working within them and decided to combine the two to form Higher, with the pure focus and mission being from here on out, to give clients and candidates exceptional service.

There’s no point having a great idea if you don’t know how to shout about it. Enter, Charlotte Drake, Co-Director and our Head of Marketing. Finding the exact same frustrations and poor level of service from recruitment agencies as Martin throughout her career, they joined forces to create not just a recruitment agency but one that has something to say and stands for something. Charlotte has worked in Marketing and Communications for over 15 years, the brains behind our brand and content and our go to for our marketing roles. She knows what makes the market tick.