Family
Gillian lives in York with her husband and two children, Darcey and Reuben and two cockapoos; Poppy and Teddy. Although Yorkshire is now her home, she is extremely proud of her Northern Irish roots, regularly returning to visit family.
A graduate of Queens University, Belfast with a love for languages, in particular Spanish, Gillian spent two years working in logistics in Belfast before she moved to York. Her career in England continued in the logistics arena for 4 years before she ‘fell into recruitment’.
Her love for sales and people had always been at the heart of what she did in her logistics career, but she knew she wanted more. That led her to her first job in recruitment at Hays – she instantly loved it and thinks back on it as being one of the most enjoyable times of her career, working and learning from some brilliant people, Nik being one of them. From there she moved on to a privately invested, independent recruitment business to be Lead Director for West and North Yorkshire. Working with Nik once again, it was there, that she really established her name in senior finance and executive recruitment.
Gillian was one of the founding members of Pratap Partnership in April 2019 and is now responsible for managing relationships for a client base across private equity, listed and private ownership companies, typically with either turnaround or growth plans.
She cites setting up the business as ‘the best decision she ever made’ and is so proud to work with a team of people who are all market leaders in what they do; and for a business that is driven by a forward thinking, dynamic and inspirational Managing Partner.