Meet The Team

Claire is the founding director and Managing Director of Atwood Tate. Her early career started in Editorial in B2B publishing before making the move into Rights in Trade book publishing. She worked for Orion and latterly as Rights Manager at Headline before making the leap into publishing recruitment.

Setting up the London office of Inspired Selection, Claire cut her teeth filling specialist publishing vacancies for all types of publishers. She achieved the REC Certificate in 2003 and progressed to become Director before leaving for a short break to pursue other interests.

In 2010, Claire returned to the publishing recruitment arena and set up Atwood Tate. With her trusted team, she has grown the business to offer a range of services including Freelance & Temp as well as Permanent and Contract recruitment for a wide range of publishers nationwide and internationally.

Lynne joined the board of Atwood Tate in January 2011 to help grow the business, to become the leader in publishing recruitment for permanent, contract and temporary roles.

Lynne has many years of experience in publishing, working in production for John Wiley in Chichester as well as Blackwell and Heinemann Publishers in Oxford. As a founder and former director of Inspired Selection, Lynne has a wealth of experience in recruitment as well as publishing.

Lynne currently focuses on business development, marketing and advertising within Atwood Tate.

Jo also joined the board of Atwood Tate in January 2011 to help grow the business.

Jo's publishing experience includes production team management for Sweet and Maxwell in London and working in production for Heinemann Publishers in Oxford. As co- founder and former director of Inspired Selection, Jo has a wealth of experience in recruitment as well as publishing.

Jo currently focuses on finance and operations within Atwood Tate.

Helen joined Atwood Tate with over six years' experience of working in publishing, latterly as Rights Executive for Orion Children’s Books. Helen has an excellent understanding of publishing, an MA in Publishing, and is a natural and experienced communicator.

Helen manages the team of consultants working on permanent vacancies across all publishing sectors and her main focus at Atwood Tate is on Senior Management opportunities in all roles and all locations across the UK.

After completing her MA in Publishing and an extensive intern experience in trade publishing, Karine spent a few years as an Editorial and Legal Assistant at Editions Points in Paris. Since joining Atwood Tate in September 2013, Karine has looked after a broad range of roles including editorial, production, design, operations and digital. She has excellent knowledge of the publishing industry and understands the needs of both clients and candidates. She completed the Certificate in Recruitment Practice of the REC in 2015.

Karine is now Lead Consultant and focusses on all B2B roles across all locations.

For any Freelance / Temp enquires please contact Kellie Millar - Manager (Temps/Freelancers)

Olivia has a degree in Philosophy and started her career in publishing working in UK Sales for publishing distributors Abrams and Chronicle, where she honed her client service and account management skills. Client and candidate satisfaction is her top priority and she continues to build on Atwood Tate's reputation for excellence.

Olivia specialises in recruiting for Sales, Marketing, Publicity and Customer Services roles in all sectors excluding B2B (from graduates to mid-management) in London, the Home Counties and East Anglia.

Half Greek-half American, Christina has an international background and brings with her years of experience working in STM publishing and sales. She spent two years in the Netherlands where she completed her MSc in International Relations and Diplomacy. Looking for a new challenge that would combine her publishing experience and diplomatic skills, she joined Atwood Tate in December 2015 to cover Catherine’s maternity leave and is now a permanent member of the team.

Her main focus at Atwood Tate is on Rights, International Sales, and Contract roles and Editorial vacancies in Trade, Academic, Educational, Professional, Associations, Charities and Societies publishing (from graduates to mid-management) in London, the Home Counties and East Anglia.

Clare has a degree in English and Marketing and started her publishing career at a publisher of art books in Hong Kong, where she gained experience in design, editorial and print production. Moving to London in 2016, Clare continued to build on her publishing experience working at Black Dog Publishing and Artifice books on architecture. Transferring her knowledge and understanding of the publishing industry across the East and the West, Clare joined Atwood Tate in 2018 and specialises in Editorial roles in STM publishing and Production, Production Editorial, Design, Distribution, and Operations positions across all publishing sectors (excluding B2B) in London, East Anglia and the Home Counties.

Claire has always worked in client focussed and business development roles in the book industry, starting out as a Floor Manager at Blackwell’s Bookshop then moving into various publishing sales roles at Octopus, Usborne and DK where she worked for ten years, latterly as Special Sales Manager at Bloomsbury Publishing.

Keen to transfer her excellent account management and client service skills to a new challenge, Claire joined Atwood in December 2017 in our Oxford Office as Publishing Recruitment Consultant, and is responsible Editorial, Production, Production Editorial, Design, Distribution & Operations roles in all sectors (excluding B2B) in all UK locations outside of London, Home Counties and East Anglia.

David is a Senior Consultant at Atwood Tate and has extensive experience in both the publishing and recruitment industry with a key focus on business areas such as: Digital, Technology, Change & Transformation, Information Security and Data & Analytics.

He started his publishing career as a Corporate Project Leader for Swets Information Services who were a subscription and information agency that worked on behalf of a multitude of publishers. He then went on to work for NLA media access as a Senior Account Manager where he provided collective licensing solutions in order to protect publishing industry's copyright. In June 2014 he left the NLA to pursue a career in recruitment and worked as a consultant for a Digital, Technology and Change & Transformation agency before joining Atwood Tate.

Ellie has a BA in English from the University of Cambridge, and has done work experience in the Publicity Department at Vintage as well as at the Reading Agency. She joined Atwood Tate in our London office in November 2017 as our Administrator and Social Media Coordinator, supporting the Books, Journals and B2B teams and looking after our Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram accounts.

Kellie, Manager of our temps / freelance division is originally from the US, and attended Art College in Canada before relocating to the UK. She spent some time working in the film and TV industry, before falling into media recruitment and then joining Atwood Tate in April 2013. She has a wealth of experience in media and publishing recruitment and is used to successfully placing candidates within both print and digital roles at all levels, across all areas of publishing, Nationwide, also including permanent administrative, PA, HR and Finance roles.

Alison works with Kellie on the Temps Team as a Recruitment Consultant. Alison has a degree in Business Studies and Human Resources Management as well as a passion for publishing. Before joining Atwood Tate, she was working for Waterstones as a Bookseller, where she was liaising with publishers and authors, participating with book signings and events and keeping up to date with all aspects of the industry. Prior to this, Alison worked within e-commerce recruitment. Her main focus is on temp and freelance roles as well as permanent administrative, PA, HR and Finance positions. She achieved the REC Certificate in 2017.

Anna has a BA in English and American Literature from the University of East Anglia and began her career with series of administrative placements within her local council. Upon flying the nest, she joined Atwood Tate as a temp herself to gain first-hand experience of the academic publishing sector. Anna joined Atwood Tate in our London office as the Temps Administrator in February 2018 where she provides administrative support to the Temps and Freelances Team, helping to source the best candidates for temp opportunities.