Global Team

Matt Smith

Managing Partner, ANZ

Matt loves connecting great people and companies with a purpose to make things better through technology and innovation. He works in MitchelLake’s Melbourne office and leads the MLG Growth vision for ANZ, working with an awesome team who source talent for leadership hiring and scaling teams across emerging technology, experience and service design, product, digital marketing, growth, data science and analytics.

Matt’s domain expertise leans towards hiring senior roles in experience and design and he enjoys the balance of working with fast growth, early stage organisations and larger scale companies going through digital transformation and the unique challenges they both bring.

Mary Karolyi

Global CFO

Mary Karolyi, our Global CFO, leads all traditional aspects of the finance function and helps drive the global commercial strategy of our business.

Apart from oversight and establishment of finance functions, her experience has also included the transformation and evolution of start-ups, scale-ups and other growth or disrupted organisations within the technology, retail, professional services sectors and across the Asia Pacific, United States of America and the United Arab Emirates.

Sophie Cohen

Senior Principal

Sophie Cohen is the Senior Associate of MitchelLake’s UK office and boasts 20 years of experience, managing executive search, market intelligence, succession planning, salary surveys, talent mapping and pipeline projects across EMEA, North America, Russia, Asia Pacific (Australia, China, India, Philippines), UAE and LATAM. She possesses broad sectoral experience in digital, advertising, marketing, media, pharmaceutical, and industrial.

Passionate about digital and technology start-ups, Sophie works with her clients to acquire the best talent for a healthy international growth or digital transformation. Outside of work, Sophie enjoys spending time with her children, exploring the world of nature, and being a climate change fighter.

Mark Sparrow

Managing Partner MLG UKI

Having operated in the industry for over 20 years, including 10 years in Asia, , Mark is responsible for driving the Tyzack Mitchellake solution suite. An highly respected search professional, Mark has often been quoted as a thought leader in the media and has appeared regularly on business-related broadcasts including CNN, CNBC, BBC, CNA and Bloomberg

Mark has led major recruitment businesses through periods of exceptional growth in both Europe and Asia Pacific. His experience covers a broad spectrum of industries but in the last 10 years he has been largely focussed on leadership appointments within Software, Technology Consulting, IT Services, Telecommunications and Media firms, globally where he has helped to appoint an array of roles spanning the C-Suite and their direct reports.  This exposure has seen him encounter businesses at all stages of their evolution; from Series A to pre transaction to turnaround and through to PLCs, giving him an ideal perspective to be able to advise firms in every situation they face, particularly in helping to appoint leaders who spur rapid growth.

Robert Kinkade

Senior Partner, Ventures & Transformation

Originally from Seattle USA, Rob is a Senior Partner based in our Sydney office. Earky in his career Rob gained invaluable experience at retail pioneer Nordstrom, where he cut his teeth helping modernise their digital footprint and e-commerce capabilities in the late 90s. This early exposure to transformative technologies sparked his passion for innovation.

After relocating to Australia, Rob’s expertise in driving digital transformation led him to leadership roles at global consulting firms Accenture and EY, where he spearheaded the launch of new digital advisory practices, combining strategic vision with executional excellence for some of Australia’s biggest brands across retail & ecommerce, fmcg, travel, telco, media and technology sectors.

For the past 7 years, Rob has channelled his entrepreneurial spirit as a founder and investor, launching multiple disruptive start-ups. Rob specialises in collaborating to identify untapped market opportunities and design innovative business models to capitalize. Today, Rob partners with ambitious leaders across private equity, venture capital and corporates who share his enthusiasm for pushing boundaries.

Jon Tanner

Group CEO & Managing Partner

Jon Tanner co-founded the MitchelLake Group in 2001 and has been advising startup, scale-up and enterprise clients on leadership, executive search and talent acquisition for digital ventures and initiatives for almost two decades.

As Group CEO and Managing Partner, Jon is based in Singapore and works across our international hubs in APAC, Americas, and Europe.

Marjorie Miller

Partner, New York, International growth

Marjorie Miller is a New York–based Executive Search Partner with MitchelLake Group, connecting high-growth and PE/VC-backed technology companies to transformative leadership. With over two decades in global search and talent strategy, she specializes in board and C-suite appointments driving expansion, innovation, and digital transformation across markets.

Andrew Lacey-Smith

Senior Partner, APAC

Dedicated to making a difference, Andrew is a dual UK & Australian citizen with more than twenty years experience in executive search.

Andrew moved from London to Sydney with a Fortune 500 firm in early 2000, then on into boutique local search firms before starting the first of my own businesses in 2010. In 2024, joined forces with the team at Mitchellake Group to focus on executive and board search in high-growth tech ventures and digital transformation.

Aditi Kittane

Principal

Benjamin Bullock

Head of Research & Delivery, ANZ

Ben fell into recruitment looking for work experience whilst studying Business & Psychology at University in Manchester. Well schooled in headhunting, he moved to London to join the Australian recruitment firm Morgan & Banks. Despite never really understanding Investment Banking, Ben was able to convince the company he was worthy of a transfer to Sydney. Here, Ben and his teams successfully navigated an acquisition and multiple rebrands before he left to pursue several startups of his own. After 3 years leading an Internal TA function helping to build Australia’s 3rd fastest growing business, Ben now has a player/coach role in MitchelLake’s Research and Delivery team.

Mark Chote

Group Advisor

Mark Chote is the Non-Executive Director for The MitchelLake Group. Boasting over 30 years of experience in the tech recruitment industry, he has partnered with a number of start-ups and grown these to multi-national operations through to successful exits. Mark is incredibly passionate about digital ventures and serves on a number of boards, utilising the knowledge he has gained having led businesses in both New Zealand and Australia.

Patrick Blute

Growth Advisor, North America

Patrick has over 10 years of experience leading product marketing and global sustainability initiatives with a focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impact.

He started his career in Silicon Valley consulting with early stage startups facilitating positioning and go-to-market strategy development. He has advised and partnered with leaders at companies including Ernst & Young, Silicon Valley Bank, and the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation. Patrick holds a degree from Columbia University in Sustainable Development and is pursuing a Masters in Business Administration focused on Sustainability at Trinity College Dublin.

Patrick is based in New York, advising MLG on product and marketing strategies for hypergrowth technology, social good, and sustainability ventures.