Patsy has been in advertising all her working life. She was a former suit at Ogilvy & Mather Sydney and later, a partner at McCarthy, Watson and Spencer Advertising. Long running campaigns started under her watch include; Oral B's 'Rob the Dentist' and Sussan's 'This Goes With That'. She is one of the few suits to have written a Magic Lantern, approved by David Ogilvy himself.

Patsy founded FBI recruitment in 1994, which is now the region's foremost creative recruitment company, with a clientele stretching around the world. She knows everyone who's anyone in advertising, and the discoverer of many stars of the future. Patsy's passion for all things creative sees her as an instrumental partner to agencies globally in solving their creative leadership problems.

Michael oversees the day-to-day operation of FBI recruitment and manages the growing team of specialised consultants. Operationally, Michael focuses on creative roles for agencies both regionally and in all major international markets and has played a key role in unearthing and managing the careers of our industry's future creative leaders.

Prior to joining FBI in 2005, Michael held senior production roles at some of Sydney's largest advertising agencies including Leo Burnett and Grey, as well as co-founding the YoungGuns International Advertising Awards in 2001, which he is still actively involved in.

Astrid Boesze joined the management team of FBI recruitment to launch FBI Europe and build the bridge of great talent between the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.

As Head of Talent for 180Amsterdam for more than seven years, Astrid was responsible for scouting and hiring all levels of world-class talent for the agency. This required her to establish and maintain relationships with the best (creative) talent in the world and keep a strong pulse on ever-changing, fast-paced creative industry of advertising, design and digital.

Her BA is in Communications and Graphic Design and her Masters degree is in Social Work and counselling, is a combination that has proven to be extremely useful when working in the advertising and creative world.

Stephen Fenn has over 10 years creative services recruitment experience in both Sydney and London covering roles in studio, traffic and production.

In London, Stephen worked at Major Players, an award-winning marketing mix recruitment agency, where he headed up the Creative Services team. Stephen is a partner at FBI Recruitment.

Georgie's first job in advertising was as one of Australia's youngest agency producers at Batey Kazoo. After 7 years at Batey, she freelanced for the next couple of years as a TV, Print & Radio producer before moving to Los Angeles where she worked as a producer whilst studying Film Producing at UCLA.

After returning back to Australia, she returned to advertising working as creative manager at one of Australia's leading agencies. In 2008 Georgie joined FBI covering creative and design roles not only in permanent, but also with a strong focus on freelance placements.

Nick kicked off his career in Sydney's advertising world as a suit. After a couple of years he moved into corporate marketing, but soon realised the creative industry was far more fun than the corporate world. He joined one of Sydney's leading creative recruiters, placing freelance and permanent creatives in agencies and studios.

After four years leading Sydney's largest creative recruitment team, Nick found that London was calling, so he moved over to run the digital recruitment team at Gabriele Skelton, one of London's best known creative recruiters servicing the digital space. At GS, Nick worked on senior digital roles across creative, strategy and client service.

Now responsible for FBI's digital area, Nick is the go to guy for Creative and Client Service roles.

Bianca has been in the creative world for 12 years working as a production/studio/traffic person. In the beginning, a boutique design agency in Sydney took her on board, 4 years later and with loads of invaluable production experience, she took flight and moved to the other side of the world. In London, EMI Records was her first port of call, followed by a stint with the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival and, finishing off a fabulous 4 years in style, she worked for Proximity London.

Joining FBI Recruitment in 2010 as Candidate Manager, Bianca assists the team of consultants by keeping an eye out for talented characters, she is the person to contact for "LaunchPad" internships and generally lends a helping hand whenever she can.

After completing her Bachelor of Business degree with majors in both Finance and Accounting, Caron worked in the foreign exchange market with both CBA and Westpac for a total of 13 years. Looking for a quieter and less stressful work environment, she joined FBI in 2000. Her financial skills have been well utilised over the past 10 years in an ever expanding capacity.

Robbie is our resident expert on all things technical.
As FBI's technical specialist consultant focusing on the digital media market, Robbie has the perfect background, arriving in Australia 3 years ago, he established and ran the Software and Web application development desk with REED's Specialist IT Recruitment team. So with his extensive technical and market knowledge, Robbie's perfectly placed to help all of FBI's clients across the digital media and advertising space, sourcing and supplying the best UI designers, CMS experts, front & back-end developers and all those roles full of acronyms, be it HTML, ASP, PHP and even some AS/2 or 3.

Virginia started her career in the hospitality industry, managing a bar then a restaurant in Manly. She also finished a diploma in Make up artistry and had a small business on the weekends doing weddings/formal make up. After giving up 4 years worth of weekends it was time for a change. Virginia then worked for a pre-press company doing sales and administration.

Virginia met her partner (now husband) and moved to London for three years where she travelled and worked as a PA with one of UK's largest property developers. On returning home to Australia in 2004 she started working for FBI Recruitment. After a very short maternity leave early in 2010, she's back as Office Manager and PA to Patsy Peacock.