Caxton Career Collective

Sauced

Sauced has also joined us a partner, supporting our events throughout 2024/25. Originally known as Talent Digital, Sauced evolved in 2018, specialising in recruiting for VC and Scale-Up B2B SaaS and tech businesses. With a unique approach, Sauced is dedicated to helping CEOs and Founders build exceptional sales and marketing teams globally. The people Sauced place, stick, and in the last two years they have achieved a 95.9% retention rate with candidates placed. They want to be seen as disruptors, creators and thought leaders when it comes to helping tech companies scale, and their community is growing faster than ever.

Lorena Bugden

Lorena's journey embodies resilience and reinvention. A former professional footballer, she represented her youth national team, traveled the world, and earned a U.S. scholarship to play and study. However, a career-ending knee injury forced her to pivot, leading her to a new path in recruitment, where she spent over three years connecting with people and creating opportunities.

Driven by her passion for interaction and competitive spirit, Lorena transitioned to sales and is now a Business Development Representative at Orbital Witness, continuing to make an impact in her evolving career.

Liz Barclay

Liz Barclay is the Small Business Commissioner for the UK. She is a professional broadcaster and journalist specialising in small business, personal finance and consumer affairs and is author of several business books. She is also Chair of the Fair by Design Campaign (to tackle the poverty premium) and a non-executive Director at Trustmark.

Liz has a long-standing relationship with the credit unions and ABCUL and has been Chair of the CU Foundation and was founding Chair of the AIG (ABCUL Inclusivity Group).

Until she took up the role of SBC Liz was a Financial Inclusion commissioner, an Ambassador for Business Debtline, a member of the Fundraising Regulator and Equity Release Council Standards Boards and ran BackinBusiness.org.uk to give small businesses a voice with policy makers. She has run production businesses and worked freelance and works with Boards and small businesses on improving governance, trust and culture, inclusivity, employee engagement, and understanding customer behaviour. She is also a communication and presentation skills coach and chairs national and international conferences

Laura Philips

Laura’s can-do attitude is infectious. It is why clients have described her as the one who ‘makes the magic happen’, even in the face of really complex project challenges.

“There’s always a solution, we just need to work it out,” she explains.

As a Delivery Director, Laura looks after a range of projects, making sure everyone is happy – from senior customer stakeholders to Softwire’s delivery teams.

Her career has seen her work in senior tech and management roles in retail, ecommerce, health and leisure, meaning she brings a valuable blend of cross-sector experience spanning project delivery, commercials, people-management and technology.

Laura is driven by a desire to make a difference through her work, Ultimately, Laura is committed to driving change for women in her Industry, with a deep desire wants to increase representation at all levels, and to help women ascend, she is the driving force behind implementing a new programme for Softwire's female talent and has a wealth of experience working in male dominated environments