Our Executive Outplacement Team

Paul Connor
Fraser Silvey
Sue Davis
Kevin Howes
Jackie Smith

Perry Fawcett

Paul Connor - MCIPD - Managing Director

 Paul established Connor in 1992 with the aim of helping businesses and people reach their full potential. Paul remains a frontline outplacement practitioner and is highly regarded in the marketplace for providing outplacement support that is practical, relevant and communicated in plain English. His extensive network of contacts combined with his understanding of the job market allows Paul to offer practical outplacement guidance. Paul has gained a reputation for caring about the people he works with offering a personal and responsive outplacement service. This aspect of Paul’s personality is well summarised below where he personally delivered an Outplacement programme for South Central Connexions Partnership: I have been very impressed with their ability to be equally accessible and supportive at senior executive level as well as to the most junior members of staff. The feedback I have received from staff in many different roles is a great tribute to their professionalism and humanity. I would highly recommend Connor to those organisations who want their people to receive a practical outplacement service that is highly personable.” Pamela Charlwood Chief Executive, South Central Connexions Paul is married with two children. His main hobby is running and he is a member of his local running club, the Marlow Striders. The next time you are driving through Marlow that man in the black peaked hat that you have just passed, could well have been Paul!

Fraser Silvey - BSc (Hons) MA MCIPD - Commercial Director

Fraser has over 10 years Outplacement experience with a proven track record of success at all levels, from junior employees to Senior Executives and business leaders. He is committed to building outplacement programmes that are driven by the needs of the individual and not by a set process, or the ego of the consultant. His highly personable and pragmatic style has delivered results both in workshops and via one-on-one support and he is particularly proud of the number of successful businesses he has launched over the last 10 years and the number of people he has placed directly within his own substantial network of decision makers throughout the country. He is passionate about applying his excellent commercial skills during the salary negotiation stage to the obvious benefit of the people he is working with. Fraser is a keen cricketer and plays for the Royal Ascot CC. He is married with two children Aidan and Lara.

Sue Davis - Senior Executive Outplacement Consulting Director

Sue is a Consulting Director at Connor with specific responsibility for the Senior Executive Practice within the company. Sue is a driven and entrepreneurial professional with strong business acumen and commercial awareness. An effective communicator with extensive experience across multiple industries, she is passionate about delivering results by authentic leadership and helping people to be the best they can be. 

Sue focuses in Executive Outplacement, Executive Coaching, and Career Planning and Professional Development for all levels.

 She has coached individuals in roles ranging from small business start up to established senior management in global corporations. She focuses on helping individuals to maximise their potential and to achieve personal and organisational goals. Sue is effective at helping people to get clarity and meaning in terms of their career and coaching them to innovatively fulfill their potential.

30 years work experience in a range of roles from individual contributor to business unit leader. Extensive experience of working for/with American headquartered companies. Experience of leading and working with teams based throughout EMEA; particularly Spain and Portugal.

Kevin Howes - Chartered MCIPD - Senior Outplacement Consultant

Kevin has more than 25 years delivering bottom-line results in blue-chip companies and SMEs. Most of his experience and successes have been in the financial services IT, telecommunications, automotive, and, pharma sectors. People tell him they like his informal, practical, straight-talking approach and his knack of quickly pinpointing what needs to be done. With some eight years outplacement experience, Kevin has developed distinctive skills delivering outplacement support and guidance that is both practical and caring. He has an extensive network of contacts and a detailed insight into the job market, both key ingredients in offering successful individual and group outplacement support. Kevin will quickly roll up his sleeves and get dirt under his nails and build enduring relationships at all levels based on mutual trust, personal credibility and a passion for achieving agreed results. Testament to his approach is many people retain Kevin in their trusted business network, long after the outplacement assignment is completed. In his spare time Kevin and his family built a 50 foot steel narrow boat, renovated a 16th century mud hut in Devon and attempts to play the bass guitar - luckily he has no direct neighbours.

Jackie Smith - Senior Outplacement Consultant

Jackie has had a diverse international career background working 1:1, with groups and at organisational level, both in line and consulting positions. With a passion to make a difference, an understanding of organisational challenges and wide ranging tool-kit of models and approaches, she is able to deliver effective outplacement solutions for individuals and teams. She brings pragmatism, creativity and fun into all her outplacement assignments. Her breadth of business experience, ability to gain rapport and credibility quickly, open and direct approach have all enabled her to build strong, productive relationships which achieve results. With 8+ years’ outplacement experience, Jackie offers practical support, keeps people on track, and helps build personal confidence and impact to fast-track clients to achieve career goals.

Perry Fawcett - Senior Executive Consultant          

Perry has over 25 years experience of growing businesses, leading teams and managing significant change and outplacement programmes within IT, Telco and Professional Services companies.

During the course of his career, he has served on management boards of NextiraOne UK, Star (part of the MessageLabs group) and Telindus UK.  In addition, Perry has led sales and marketing teams at IBM Global Services, Equant and Integris (now Steria).  

He has extensive experience of helping senior people clarify career goals and seek new roles after redundancy or redeployment. Perry has assisted executives to gain positions in other organisations and to set up their own businesses.