Meet The Team

Grace Gilmore

Grace Gilmore

Managing Director

Grace joined Kennedy Reid in September of 2013 as a Recruitment Consultant. A couple of years later, Grace moved into a Practice Leader role within the Life Insurance team and ultimately became the Director of Professional Services, managing over six practices across the business. Seven years later, when she started as a Junior Consultant, Gr...

Tom Rapley

Tom Rapley

Business Development Manager | National Client Director - Permanent Services

Tom joined Kennedy Reid in March 2019 and is currently the National Client Director - Permanent Services for the General Insurance team.Previously, Tom worked within the insurance industry as a business development manager b...

Christina Escalera-Galvan

Christina Escalera-Galvan

Marketing & Operations Manager

​Christina joined the company in September 2022 as a Marketing and Operations Manager. Before joining Kennedy Reid, Christina worked as a Marketing and Event Manager in the hospitality and retail sector for five years. She completed a Masters degree in Business & Marketing...

Grace Dong

Grace Dong

Finance Manager

Grace is the Accountant at Kennedy Reid. She began in 2014 and manages finance across the whole business. Grace has over 20 years of professional experience and a degree in Accounting and Finance from Shanghai Lixin University of Commerce. Grace enjoys the office's fun and energetic working environment every day, celebrating eve...

Sisi Yuan

Sisi Yuan

Payroll Manager

Sisi joined Kennedy Reid in May 2019 as a Payroll Officer.Sisi graduated from UNSW in Accounting and has over four years of accounting experience.In Sisi's c...

Carla Byrom

Carla Byrom

Senior Recruitment Consultant | Temporary Solutions & Business Support

Carla joined Kennedy Reid in June 2021 as a Temp Consultant specialising in Business Support. Before this, Carla worked within the Motor Trade Industry - transitioning from New Business Development to Key Account Manager and gained over seven years of experience. Carla's main focus was to establis...

Danielle Murphy

Danielle Murphy

Recruitment Consultant | Temporary Solutions & Business Support

Danielle joined the Kennedy Reid team in July 2023 as a Recruitment Consultant on the Business Support desk. Before starting her career as a recruiter, Danielle worked in Sales, Insurance and Customer Complaints. Danielle enjoys meeting with clients and candidates, and is passionate about delivering exceptional ser...

Ciara Holden

Ciara Holden

Recruitment Consultant | Temporary Solutions & Business Support

​Ciara joined the Kennedy Reid team in April 2022 as a temp consultant, providing Temporary Solutions within the Business Support & Insurance space.Ciara moved to Australia in 2019. Before starting her career in recruitment, Ciara worked as a New Product Development & Operations and Food Buyer within the Food Industry and has a...

Caroline O'Grady

Caroline O'Grady

Principal Recruitment Consultant | Permanent Solutions & Business Support

Caroline joined Kennedy Reid in February 2020 initially as a Resourcer working on the Executive Recruitment desk before transitioning to Consultant on the General Insurance – Temporary Recruitment desk. In January 2022, Caroline changed desks, providing Permanent Solutions within the Busine...

Leilah Stott

Leilah Stott

Recruitment Consultant | Business Support

​Leilah joined Kennedy Reid in January 2023 as a Recruitment Consultant working on the General Insurance – Permanent Recruitment desk. Before joining Kennedy Reid, Leilah moved to Australia from England. She

Joshua Boyd

Joshua Boyd

Recruitment Consultant | Business Support

​​​Joshua joined Kennedy Reid in May 2023 as a Recruitment Consultant.Before joining Kennedy Reid, Josh worked at a large global recruitment organisation and ran the permanent transactional accounting desk across all of Sydney. Josh

Niamh Cutting

Niamh Cutting

Senior Recruitment Consultant | Life Insurance

​Niamh joined Kennedy Reid in June 2022 as a Senior Recruitment Consultant on the Life Insurance Desk. Niamh started her career as a Recruitment Consultant specializing in Contact Centres-Customer Service for Sydney and Melbourne. She was responsible for recruiting a wide range of positions fr...

Kate Carroll

Kate Carroll

Team Leader | General Insurance Claims

Kate joined Kennedy Reid in September 2019 as a Consultant and has worked across the Allied Health & Claims space. She recently decided to focus all her efforts on the General Insurance Claims space, where her passion lies.

Harrison Hoy

Harrison Hoy

Senior Recruitment Consultant | General Insurance Claims

​After moving to Sydney in February 2022, Harry joined the Kennedy Reid team as a Candidate Manager and progressed to a 360 Recruitment Consultant in July 2022.Before this, Harry lived on the Gold Coast in QLD, where he was lucky enough to be the inaugural graduate of Bond University’s new Bachelor ...

Brogan Mullally

Brogan Mullally

Recruitment Consultant | General Insurance Underwriting

​Brogan joined Kennedy Reid in February 2023 as a Recruitment Consultant in the Insurance desk.Before moving to Australia, Brogan worked in the Recruitment Industry back in Ireland, specialising in the Legal...

Arran Maher

Arran Maher

Recruitment Consultant | Insurance - Workers Compensation

​Arran joined the Kennedy Reid team in 2023 as a Recruitment Consultant specialising in the Workers Compensation desk.Before moving to Australia, Arran previously worked as a recruitment consultant in Ireland, fosucing on Permanent Head Office, Retail Management and Hospitality Recruitment. He also completed a Bachelor of Busines...

Shauna Brennan

Shauna Brennan

Senior Recruitment Consultant | General Insurance Legal, Risk & Compliance

​Shauna joined Kennedy Reid in April 2021 as a Recruitment Consultant and re-joined in June 2023 as a Senior Recruitment Consultant on the General Insurance team to build a Legal, Risk & Compliance desk.Shauna