Our team
At the heart of EmployAbility is our dedicated and experienced team, who are able to offer expert advice to employers and to students/graduates alike.
Tab Ahmad
Tab founded EmployAbility in 2006, after four years’ experience providing specialist disability and employment consultancy services to employers whilst at a disability charity, where she pioneered work in this sector. Previously, Tab founded and ran her own search firm specialising in financial services and investment banking, and she has over twenty years of experience in recruitment and selection. Click here for full biography of Tab.
Sarah Denness
Sarah co-founded EmployAbility with Tab, having hands on experience of managing programmes and services in the disability and employment sector since 2004. Sarah’s expertise in this sector is backed up by nine years experience of recruitment and selection. Click here for full biography of Sarah.
Justin Penney
Justin has been working with EmployAbility since 2008. He joined from Prospects, the employment arm of the National Autistic Society, where he spent nine years supporting students and graduates with Asperger’s Syndrome into employment. Click here for full biography of Justin.
Racheal Ellis & Claire Martese
Racheal and Claire are responsible for EmployAbility’s marketing activities, helping to create the broadest and deepest possible pool of disabled student and graduate talent. They work with universities and disability organisations, as well as looking after our website, Facebook presence, and the quarterly eAbility newsletter. Racheal has five years’ experience marketing to educational institutions. Claire has thirteen years’ marketing experience in France and the UK.
Associates
We work with and are able to call upon the expertise of an extensive network of associates experienced in disability and employment issues, who are based throughout the UK.
