Interview

Five minutes with Chris Heaton

For many people after a career spanning more than 35 years, retirement may be a time to ease back and enjoy a more relaxing pace of life. Not so for Chris Heaton who is stepping straight into one of the greatest challenges on Earth which will see him tackle a gruelling 1,200 mile run across […]

Five minutes with David Grey MBE

This month Chris Sharp of Main-Board Executive Search meets up with Sheffield businessman David Grey MBE, Chairman of OSL Group of Companies about his career in manufacturing in good times and bad, on leadership and why he is not tempted to sell his business.

Five minutes with Peter Hartland

Peter Hartland is Chief Executive of St Luke’s Hospice in Sheffield and is a Past President of the Sheffield & District Society of Chartered Accountants. Peter shares with us his fascinating business career that has culminated in the transformation of one of Yorkshire’s leading charitable institutions.

Five minutes with Phil White

We catch up with seasoned finance director Phil White and learn how a random accident led to an eventful career as a catalyst for improvement.

Five minutes with John Armitstead

John Armitstead takes time to tell as about a varied career which saw him make the move from practice to industry and life as the father of one of Yorkshire’s world-class athletes.

Five minutes with Mark Wilson

Looking back, Mark Wilson of Berrymans Glass, the UK’s largest purchaser and recycler of waste glass, can pinpoint the opportunity which was the turning point for him to make the move from finance director to CEO. We catch up to talk about how that one moment shaped his future career and the passion he has […]

Five minutes with Neil MacDonald

We catch up with Sheffield businessman Neil MacDonald who played a key role in the global growth of city forgings specialist Firth Rixson and became one of the youngest Master Cutlers in recent years when he took over the role in 2012.

If you require Executive recruitment support, get in touch:

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Information about us
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Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

Intellectual property rights
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Reliance on information posted
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We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Our site changes regularly
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Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

Our liability
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any liability for indirect or consequential loss or damage; and
any liability for the following forms of loss:
loss of income or revenue;
loss of business;
loss of profits or contracts;
loss of anticipated savings;
loss of data;
loss of goodwill; and
wasted management or office time,
whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise.

Viruses, hacking and other offences
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By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

Linking to our site
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You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set above.

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Variations
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Privacy Policy

Main-Board LLP (‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’) is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected and that Main-Board LLP is compliant with the Data Protection Act 1998 and forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This privacy policy (‘Privacy Policy’) explains how Main-Board LLP uses the information that we collect about you and the procedures that Main-Board LLP has in place to protect your personal information.

Who is the data controller for the information you provide us?

For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation, Main-Board LLP is the data controller. Main-Board LLP processes personal information in relation to its own staff, candidates and clients.

We ensure that the information you supply to us is processed fairly and lawfully, with care and skill and will only be used for the purposes set out in this privacy policy.

In case of any queries regarding the information we hold on you, please send an email to [email protected] or write to, for the attention of our Compliance Office at Main-Board LLP, 2D The Gateway, Fryers Way, Silkwood Business Park, Ossett WF5 9TJ

What kind of information do we collect from you?

Main-Board LLP will collect personal information about you, including but not limited to your name, address, contact details and any information you have provided to Main-Board LLP in relation to future employment such as your CV, references and qualification certificates.

On occasion, we may also collect sensitive personal information with your consent, for example, information relating to your health.

We will collect personal information from you by telephone, in person, in writing including all forms of electronic mail and through our website. On occasion, we may look at publicly available sources such as LinkedIn and other job boards, but we do not usually record any personal information. In the case that we do, we will contact you within the timescale required by applicable data protection laws.

How is your information used?

First and foremost, we will use your personal information to help us provide you with the best possible service in our capacity as a recruitment and consultancy service.

Your personal information may be held, used, processed and disclosed by us for the following reasons:

To provide our recruitment and consultancy services to you, as listed on our site and to facilitate the recruitment process.
To answer your questions and enquiries.
To enable you to submit your CV or apply online for jobs.
To notify you about vacancies that we believe you may be interested in, where you have consented to do so and can unsubscribe at any time.
To send you details of reports, promotions, offers, networking and client events, and general information about the industry sectors which we consider may be of interest to you.
To send your personal information to clients in order to apply for/ assess your suitability for a job, where you have consented to do so.
To match your details with job vacancies and to assist us in finding a position that is most suitable for you.
To fulfil our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, for your future temporary employment.
To fulfil contractual obligations with our clients.
For internal record-keeping.
To maintain our business relationship, where you are a user of our website, a client or candidate.
To enable us to send you targeted, relevant marketing materials or other communications.
To improve our customer service and to make our services more valuable to you (including carrying out customer satisfaction surveys and tailoring our website to enrich your online experience).
To determine the effectiveness of promotional campaigns and advertising.
From time to time, we may contact you to make sure that the information stored on our system is complete, up to date and accurate.
To notify you of changes to our services.
If Main-Board LLP and/or part of its business is sold or integrated with another business, your details may be disclosed to Main-Board LLP’s advisers and any prospective purchasers and their advisers and new owners of the business.
To third parties where we have retained them to provide services that we, you or our client have requested including but not limited to references, qualifications, criminal reference checking services, verification of the details you have provided from a third party source and skill test results.
To trusted third parties who perform functions on behalf of Main-Board LLP and provide services to us, such as professional advisors including accountancy and legal firms, IT support and cloud based service providers. These third parties have to comply with similar undertakings of privacy and confidentiality as Main-Board LLP.
To comply with our legal, regulatory and compliance obligations in connection with the detection of crime or the collection of taxes or duties or to verify your identity.

Our legal basis for processing personal information?

Our legal basis for the processing of your personal information is our legitimate business interests, although we will also rely on contract, legal obligation and consent for specific uses of data.

We will rely on contract as a legal basis, if we are negotiating or have entered into a placement agreement with you or your organisation. In order to enter into a contract, we will need you to supply certain personal information as the contract will contain obligations on both your part and our part such as financial information to pay you.
Certain categories of your personal information may contractually be required as per instructions of our clients. In these circumstances, you will need to provide such personal information. We, or our client, may not be able to enter into a contract with you if the information is not provided.
We will rely on legal obligation if we are required to hold information on you to fulfil our legal obligations. There are some statutory and regulatory obligations which relate to businesses’ generally, for example complying with tax, bribery, fraud/crime prevention and cooperation with regulatory authorities such as HMRC.
Where you have entered into a contract with us and refuse to provide any information required by law such as information and documentation to establish your right to work and verification of identity, we reserve the right to end our business relationship with you.
We will process your personal information on the basis that you have consented to do so for one or more specific purposes. For example, you will have provided your written or verbal consent for us to use your information to receive specific marketing updates and to send your personal information to clients in order to apply for/ assess your suitability for a job.
You can withdraw your consent at any time.
The remainder of the processing is carried out under our legitimate business interests or the interests of a third party (client). We don’t consider any of the processing will prejudice you in any way and instead will help us offer a more tailored, efficient service for everyone.
We consider it to be reasonable to retain records of our dealings and transactions to ensure our business runs smoothly and to provide the best service possible.
We consider it to be reasonable to expect that if you are looking for employment or have posted your CV on a publicly available source, you are happy for us to collect and store this information to offer or provide our recruitment services to you.
You have the right to object to this processing if you wish by sending an email to [email protected] . Please note, that in some cases we may continue to retain some information if we have an overriding business interest or legal obligation to do so.

Who has access to your information and where will it be held?

The information you supply may be disclosed to Main-Board LLP staff in the UK, and with your prior consent, agents and employers seeking candidates for employment. Your information will also be disclosed to people to whom we may transfer rights and obligations in connection with our business, such as professional advisors like accountants and to any organisations that provide a service to Main-Board LLP such as cloud based service providers, and who have agreed to keep your information confidential.

Our servers are all hosted from a datacentre in the UK which is ISO 27001 certified.

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, Main-Board LLP protects all data from being disclosed to any other third parties except when required by law.

It is rare for information you provide us to be transferred out of European Economic area (EEA). In the case that the transfer of data is necessary to provide you with a service, we will notify you of the event.

How will Main-Board LLP protect your information?

The internet is not a secure medium. However, Main-Board LLP has put in place various technologies, strict policies and training for all employees to safeguard and protect your information from unauthorised and unlawful access, use, modification, destruction or loss. These technologies and policies, which are of the highest standards, are continuously improved.

Notwithstanding the above, it should be appreciated that no system is entirely fool-proof and you should be careful when you reveal any confidential information to any third party.

Main-Board LLP shall use reasonable endeavours to ensure the security of the data, but shall have no liability for any loss or damage, including for access to data, caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect the Client’s computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material through use of the Services.

How long will Main-Board LLP hold your information for?

We will hold your information for as long as it is necessary to comply with our statutory and contractual obligations and in compliance with our legitimate business interests as a data controller.

Some categories of documents we hold will need to be retained longer than others. How long we retain different categories of personal information will be based on the purpose for which they are processed and our statutory and contractual obligations .Other information will be held for no longer than is necessary to protect our legitimate business interests as a data controller.

If we obtain payroll details for temporary workers in order to process payroll, we and a third party will be required by law to store this data for up to 7 years.

How can you access, transfer, modify or request information to be deleted?

You have the right at any time to access a copy of or to transfer the information we hold on you. Main-Board LLP may ask you to verify your identity and for more information about your request. This service is free of charge but additional fees may apply when obtaining extra copies of the information. If for some reason your request is denied, Main-Board LLP will provide you with reasons for doing so .We will also inform you of the supervisory authority you can lodge a complaint to.

Additionally, you have the right to amend, delete, withdraw your consent or restrict processing of the information which Main-Board LLP holds on you, subject to certain expectations. Where Main-Board LLP is unable to approve your request we will give you reasons for not doing so.

In all cases, we will seek to act on your request in the timescale required by applicable data protection laws.

Use of cookies

‘Cookies’ are small files, typically containing information such as a site name and unique user ID, which are stored on a user’s computer. Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

Certain features on the Website are only available if you enable the cookie. Main-Board LLP also uses a cookie to assist it to provide information which is relevant to your interest.

You are free to decline Main-Board LLP cookies although that may impair certain features on the Website.

Main-Board LLP may also track certain information through the use of JavaScript code and third party web site analytics providers such as Google Analytics.

Your rights and choices

You have a choice whether or not you wish to receive information from Main-Board LLP. We will usually not contact you for marketing purposes unless you have given us prior consent.

We will use electronic profiling which involves human-decision making on our database to find jobs and opportunities based on your details. You may withdraw your consent or restrict Main-Board LLP from processing your personal information in certain circumstances. Please note, this may affect the services we are able to supply you.

Finally, it should be remembered that the General Data Protection Regulation provide certain rights for you including:

The right to be informed
The right of access
The right to rectification
The right to erasure
The right to restrict processing
The right to data portability
The right to object
Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling

A good explanation of your rights (in English) is available on the website of the United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office. For more information please visit the ICO website – https://ico.org.uk/

Contact Details

At Main-Board LLP, we welcome your views and if you would like to contact us with any queries or comments on how we have handled your personal information, please send an e-mail to [email protected] or write to, for the attention of our Compliance Officer: 2D The Gateway, Fryers Way, Ossett

Other Terms

Main-Board LLP may contain links to other websites. If you click on a link, you are not protected by this Privacy Policy and you are advised to read the privacy policy of the other website as it may differ from this Privacy Policy. Main-Board LLP cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access those using links on our website.

Main-Board LLP reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time as it deems necessary.