Meryl joined Seaco as the Human Resources Director in February 2023. She started her HR journey in recruitment (in financial services), with a strong commitment to gain an in-depth understanding of the culture of the company to identify the best candidate that would be a culture addition to the company. A key skill was managing stakeholders whether internally or externally.

Meryl then moved on to become an HR generalist, working across multiple industries including financial services, engineering, professional services and tech start-ups, developing a strong balance between transactional and strategic HR. This was a combination of both permanent roles as well as consulting, eventually developing her skills in transformation and leadership. Meryl has led projects across diversity, change, target operating models, implementing HRIS’s and has also been an active member of executive and senior leadership teams. Meryl is an HR agile practitioner, and is a strong proponent in using data to track and measure change and identify opportunities.

Meryl received both her undergraduate and postgraduate social science degrees in organizational from the University of Cape Town. Her interests outside of work include cooking, travelling, pottery, attending theatre and music concerts and is an avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction books

Russell became Seaco’s Human Resources Director in 2007 and has since created a full service HR function.  Prior to joining Seaco, he spent six years as HR Director for Crane Telecommunications, a European Telecoms distributor.
 
Russell’s background is in Management and Leadership Development, working for The Leadership Trust from 1993 to 1998 as a Public Program Director and then as Operations Director. He worked for Deloitte & Touche HR Solutions as a Senior Manager, and for ChangeFirst, a change management consultancy, as an Operations Director.
 
Based in the London office, Russell holds a Business Studies degree from the University of Brighton and is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development, and holds both OPQ and MBTI qualifications.
 
Outside of work, any spare time is taken up by sport, either playing cricket or watching his two sons play cricket, football and rugby. He is involved with a number of cricket clubs and is a supporter of Brighton and Hove Albion.