team

The Team

The profiles below give you more background on our Public Sector team.

Lee Burman, Senior Consultant

Lee Burman joined the Purple House team in October 2008 to develop the Public Sector and Not-for-Profit HR sectors. Lee graduated in Business Studies at the University of Plymouth in 2000, and spent a year travelling before moving to London to begin his recruitment career. In 2002 he joined a national recruiter recruiting HR professionals within the Public & Not-for-Profit sectors. In 2005 and in need of a fresh challenge, he moved to a niche Public Sector HR consultancy where he has spent 4 years recruiting HR professionals for a variety of Health Trusts and PCTs, Local Authorities, Housing Associations and Charities across London and the South East. Past clients have included the James Paget NHS Foundation Trust, City & Islington College, Christian Aid, Camden Council and Hertfordshire Contabulary.

Tom Mornement, Director

Tom is the joint founder of Purple House. He graduated in Business and IT and recruited at the mid to senior levels in the highly competitive banking and finance market in London before moving into HR recruitment some 9 years ago. Tom’s strength is in relationship management and he has many clients and candidates that he has worked with repeatedly over that time. Tom is married with three children and lives in Wiltshire.

Lindsey Newman, Director

As the second founding Director of Purple House, Lindsey focuses on the ‘external’ activity for Purple House such as marketing and business development, forging relationships with new clients and Associates/Partners as well as managing her own base of clients.

Her career before Purple House provides a firm foundation for her role. Lindsey read Law at the University of Bristol followed by a year at Law School. Not wishing to pursue a legal career, she travelled and taught English in South America before joining VNU Business Publications, a Business and IT Publisher, on their graduate scheme.

After 2 years with VNU, she joined Price Jamieson, a specialist Media Recruitment Consultancy, recruiting salespeople for a range of London’s business and consumer publishing houses.

Lindsey moved to Harrison Willis to help establish the Group’s niche legal recruitment arm, ‘In-House Legal’, recruiting senior in-house lawyers for commerce and industry clients. She helped build the brand and managed a small team of recruiters eventually relocating to Bristol in 1998 to establish their HR recruitment division for the South West region. Lindsey was approached in 2000 to establish Carr Lyons Bristol office working with Tom. Lindsey is married and lives in Bristol with her husband and lively 2 year old daughter.

Martyn Melvin, FCIPD, Director

Martyn joined Purple House in July 2007 to provide HR consultancy services, senior HR recruitment capability and HR advice. An experienced and qualified HR Director he is a Fellow of the CIPD and has an MA in Human Resource Management from Oxford Brookes University. He has been an ad hoc lecturer on the International Management course at the University and works closely with their Alumni society. Martyn has held Senior and Board-level HR positions in a variety of industries including, pharmaceutical, drinks, FMCG and electronics both in the UK and internationally.

He is currently Chair of the Swindon and North Wilts CIPD branch and member of the CIPD council. He has written a number of articles on HR Management and has spoken at a variety of HR related conferences and events and won a silver award from the Management Consultancy Association. Martyn is now using his HR knowledge to add considerable value to Purple House in the recruitment of senior HR positions and has undertaken assignments across the UK and Europe since joining.

Martyn is married and lives in Wiltshire, his main interest outside work is walking – he can be spotted most weekends walking the hills and canals with his wife Sue – thankfully he does it fully clothed!! He also supports Cambridge United FC – well, no one’s perfect!!