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Astrid Camacho and Adrian Smith spent most of their careers inside one of the world's largest recruitment groups, running and reshaping national facilities management operations. Branta is that experience, applied directly.
Twenty years in facilities management recruitment, almost all of it in the North. At Randstad she rose from consultant to Head of FM North, then led the UK facilities management division, then served as Client Services Director for Randstad Digital and for FM. A Northern Region committee member of the IWFM since 2015, she founded Branta in 2025 and leads commercial strategy, client relationships and talent engagements.
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Twenty seven years in recruitment, most of it at Randstad, where he ran the construction, property and facilities business through a national office network, accountable for £100m of revenue and 80 staff, and was strategic lead for the FM division. He then led the technologies business as Senior Director of Operations, sat on the UK operational board, and finished as a client partner in Randstad Digital. He joined Branta in 2025 and leads recruitment delivery, operations and structural change.
LinkedInWhy Branta
Branta is the genus of the Brent and Canada geese. They fly in formation, take turns at the front, and cover extraordinary distances because of it. It seemed a fair description of how we work with clients.
We would rather send three people who fit than ten who might.
Attraction, onboarding and retention are one journey, not three departments.
Time to fill, agency cost, retention, revenue. If it cannot be measured we say so.
Where we have been
Astrid ran Randstad's facilities management business in the North and then across the UK, before moving into client services leadership for the group's digital and FM divisions. Adrian ran Randstad's construction, property and FM business nationally, accountable for £100m of revenue, then led the technologies business and sat on the UK operational board. Between them that is 47 years in recruitment and a long stretch running functions far larger than the businesses Branta works with now.
That matters because most of their competition left recruitment at the top of a recruitment career, not a leadership one. Branta can do the day job, and can also sit with an owner and talk about how to get from £30m to £100m, because they have been part of doing exactly that.
Astrid is based in Newcastle and Adrian in the South, which is why national coverage is real rather than a line on a website.
Talk to us
No pitch deck and no twelve step programme. A conversation with one of the two people who would do the work.
