Leadership Recruiting & AI
A role positioned around the work companies now need from recruiting leadership: senior search judgment, talent-market fluency, AI-enabled operations, and practical systems thinking.
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Lee Sam
The recruiting leader for the AI era.
Executive and senior leadership search across EMEA — strategy, market mapping, and succession.
AI is redesigning how companies hire. Recruiters and leaders need to change too.
02 / Experience
Timeline.
Eighteen years across the world's category-defining technology companies.
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03 / AI Work
Recruiting tools for the AI era.
A mini portfolio of practical tools built to make recruiting sharper, faster, and more intelligence-led.
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04 / Numbers
Delivery, in numbers.
EMEA recruiting at Cloudflare, 2018 to present. Volume, quality, and independence — measured.
3,329
Total hires delivered across EMEA. FY25 set the region's all-time record — 599 hires, a +49% increase year-on-year.
FY 23FY 24FY 25
↑ +49% YoY · FY24 → FY25 · record year
2018 – Present
89%
Offer acceptance rate across all EMEA hires
2018 – Present
2.2%
Agency-sourced hires — 76 of 3,329 placed without an agency
FY 2025 · Team
11
Recruiters on the EMEA team delivering the record year
FY 2025 · Personal
34
Hires placed personally — alongside leading the team
05 / Outside Work
Travel, basketball, and a few long flights.
Outside work, I make time for travel, live sport, and the kind of trips that become stories.
I am a Milwaukee Bucks fan, including flying to Milwaukee to watch games in person. This is the personal side of the story: places, games, and the occasional very long flight.
Personal archive
Travel · Bucks
Let's talk.
For introductions, conversations, or quiet enquiries about senior leadership search, AI-era recruiting operations, and talent systems for companies being rebuilt around AI.