Bridging the Gap Between Engineering and Executive Talent Search
Founded by recruitment leaders with genuine hands on coding experience. We map markets, headhunt passive engineering talent, and deliver vetted shortlists in days.
Meet the Team
The people behind the shortlists.
Matthew Shone
Founder and Managing Director
With over a decade of recruitment leadership across UK and international markets, Matt combines executive search mastery with genuine hands on coding experience. Having built software and custom applications himself, he understands tech stacks, development workflows and technical terminology from a practical perspective. Rather than relying on generic recruiter scripts, Matt speaks the language of engineering leads and CTOs, bridging the gap between technical requirements and strategic hiring without the buzzword fluff.
Sophie Jensen
Head of Candidate Experience and Talent Operations
Sophie leads candidate experience and partner operations at GAC Tech, ensuring a high touch, seamless journey for both engineering talent and client hiring teams. Specialising in candidate engagement and talent mapping, she oversees our end to end vetting process and scaleup partnerships. Sophie’s commitment to an exceptional candidate first experience ensures GAC Tech consistently attracts and retains top tier technical talent.
Stuart Hare
Principal Recruitment Consultant
Stuart brings a powerful dual perspective to GAC Tech, combining 25 years of hands on engineering expertise with high level financial market analysis. Having built a quarter century career in complex technical systems alongside extensive experience in forex trading, Stuart possesses a rare blend of practical engineering logic, risk assessment and quantitative market intuition. As Principal Recruitment Consultant, he applies this analytical precision to headhunting technical talent, diagnosing client requirements with surgical accuracy and identifying high calibre professionals who drive real commercial value.
Tech Stacks We Recruit For
From early-stage scale-ups to enterprise engineering functions, we map talent across the core languages and platforms that power modern product teams.
