Knightsbridge Team
Each of our partners brings specialized expertise across industries and practices at a senior leadership, C-suite and board level. From meeting diversity goals to succession planning, our team will help you attract and retain the talent you need to transform your leadership and workforce.
Meet our LHH Canadian team
Alaina Hamid
Consultant, Recruitment Solutions
Alaina is a seasoned human resources professional with extensive in-house and search firm recruiting experience spanning across the healthcare, technology, retail and manufacturing industries.
Tim Hewat
Partner, Executive Search
Tim focuses on building the firm’s Technology Practice (technology, media & software), as well as working with clients in the Venture Capital/Private Equity and Transportation space. He is also active in the Board search practice.
Brian Alpern
Partner, Executive Interim Management
Brian's expertise is recruiting senior leaders for short-term assignments. Highly skilled at assessing talent, he helps companies address skills gaps, capacity concerns or other strategic interests, often involving major change initiatives.
Jane van Alphen
Partner, Recruitment Solutions
Jane specializes in healthcare & has provided senior leadership within clinical, research and innovation environments. She has a diverse network, and additional expertise in governance, strategy, and recruitment.
Janice Kussner
Partner, Executive Search
Janice’s executive search practice is defined by successful relationships and multi-year agreements with diverse client organizations, primarily in the government and public/ broader public sector.
Cheryl Lai
Senior Consultant, Executive Search
Cheryl focuses extensively on corporate leadership positions for large institutions spanning social-public enterprises, government, healthcare and education.
Tara Veysey
Partner, Executive Search
Tara focuses on VP and C-level mandates for clients primarily in the financial services and professional services sectors.
Chris Sawyer
Partner, Executive Search
Chris brings over 25 years of expertise, specializing in the Not-for-Profit, Public Sector and Healthcare industries.
Bruce Diemert
Partner, Executive Search
Bruce focuses his business expertise on the industries that drive the economy in Western Canada, specifically, all resource based industries, professional services, manufacturing, and information technology companies.
Ed Perkovic
Vice President, Search Delivery
Ed has extensive executive and senior level recruitment and talent acquisition expertise in a wide range of industry sectors including: Academia, Consumer Packaged Goods, Financial Services...
Emily Veloza
Consultant, Executive Interim Management
Emily supports her Partners on the Nursing project, and currently reports to her Team Lead. Emily’s involvement in the search process entails outreaching, sourcing and pre-screening candidates.
Larry Ross
Partner, Executive Search
While Larry has recruited leaders of most functional areas, he is recognized for his solid track record recruiting experienced CEOs, presidents and general managers, as well as senior level leaders in all other key functional areas.
Erica Tsui
Consultant, Recruitment Solutions
Erica works with clients across multiple industries and functional roles including financial services, technology, human resources, engineering, manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, not-for-profit and government sectors.
Lisa Knight
Managing Partner, Executive Search
Lisa works with clients in financial services, retail/consumer and electricity/utilities, to help them advance their businesses through the acquisition and optimization of top talent, at both the executive and board levels.
Fahad Rizvi
Team Lead - Recruitment, Executive Interim Management
Fahad has developed his expertise in the recruitment industry with over a decade of working experience in the Middle East, Africa, and North America.
Glen Sivec
Partner, Executive Search
Glen is focused on growing the Private Equity and Consumer packaged goods sectors. He brings over 30 years experience in these industries in addition to public accounting.
Kangana Jani
Consultant, Executive Interim Management
Kangana is focused on sourcing talent in the Non-for-profit, Healthcare, Finance/ Accounting, Human Resources, Mining, and IT sectors.
Katherina Cameron
Executive Assistant
Katherina supports our Partners in the Technology, Pharma, CPG and General Management sectors.
Laura Machan
Partner, Recruitment Solutions
Laura has extensive experience in industries such as manufacturing, construction and power generation. She is also focused on building the engineering practice.
Lindsay Millard
Senior Consultant, Executive Search
Lindsay has experience across a variety of industries and functional roles including CPG, retail, industrial, professional and financial services, IT, telecommunications and not-for-profit sectors.
Lizz Surajdeen
Executive Assistant
Lizz is the Executive Assistant for our Managing Director of Search Practices and Managing Partner of Executive Search. She brings experience in Information Technology, Advertising, Healthcare and Real Estate industries.
Madiha Rashid
Senior Consultant, Executive Search
Madiha has a track record in successfully searching and placing senior-level executives in a variety of industries including consumer products, financial services, retail, technology, pharmaceuticals and energy.
Matthew Dyck
Partner, Recruitment Solutions
Matt has years of experience in recruitment for a variety of industries including Healthcare, Manufacturing, Marketing and the Arts. He has directly led the sourcing, interviewing and on-boarding processes for all types of clients with a variety complex and unique roles.
Melanie Barbieri
Senior Consultant
Melanie is a Generalist in the field delivering on a variety of executive level searches across all major industries including energy & utilities, technology, consumer products, financial services and retail.
Oksana Krupa
Executive Assistant
Oksana is an Executive Assistant in the Search Practice. She supports Partners in the Not-for-Profit, Public Sector, Healthcare industries and entrepreneurs.
Olivia Knight
Consultant, Recruitment Solutions
Olivia has a diverse experience profile & brings a unique suite of skills that help her successfully source the right candidates for a variety of different functions and industries, including IT, Healthcare, Communications and Financial Services.
Piraveen Pulendran
Manager, Operations
Piraveen bring 13+ years of recruitment experience in various verticals, including experience with candidate recruitment, account management and operations to provide a full-cycle recruitment experience.
Stephen Bell
Managing Partner, Executive Interim Management
Steve leads our public and not-for-profit Executive Interim Management practice. He is the champion of the term ‘Strategic Interim’ and has a wealth of experience helping organizations with capacity or capability challenges.
Stephen Hime
Partner, Recruitment Solutions
Stephen has nearly 20 years of experience providing senior level search and recruitment services to client organizations in various industries - engineering, manufacturing, consulting and information technology.
Steve Koddermann
Partner, Executive Interim Management
Steve has a wealth of experience spanning a nearly 20 year career in recruitment specializing in Finance and IT.
Tara Lee Chou
Manager, Operations
Tara Lee is the Manager of Operations for the Recruitment Solutions team at LHH Knightsbridge in Toronto.
Thomas Lee
Research Consultant
Tom conducts research assignments in the academic, healthcare, energy/utilities, manufacturing, financial services, insurance, government, NFP, pharmaceutical, and professional services industries.
Are you Ready for Next?
LHH helps individuals, teams, and organizations find and prepare for what's next in the world of work. We support clients needs throughout the talent journey, from recruitment to career transitions and leadership development. We empower organizations to expand their capabilities and workers to build brighter futures.