The team behind 106 documented outcomes and selection progressions across 53 candidate journeys.

Hassan founded ECS and personally leads every Private Diagnostic and advisory engagement. Before ECS he worked in London recruitment and search, at Kea Consultants, Barclay Simpson and Heriot Brown. Across his recruitment career and subsequent advisory work through Elite Careers Strategy, he has reviewed more than 10,000 applications and related candidate materials.

He also founded Who Gets In?, research into how highly selective employers and institutions choose people, and has been featured in the Financial Times. He has delivered independent sessions in student-led and educational contexts associated with Yale School of Management, Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan. These references do not imply affiliation or endorsement.

Tengo studied Engineering at the University of Cambridge and began his career at McKinsey & Company in London. He then served as Deputy CIO and Head of Agile at Bank of Georgia in Tbilisi, and later led growth at the London technology start-up Pensight. Since 2020 he has been co-founder and chief executive of Conceptdigital, a London digital and technology agency. He is a Forbes Georgia 30 Under 30 honoree.

His career has moved through management consulting, banking and entrepreneurship, three routes many ECS candidates weigh against each other. Tengo advises Hassan on the firm’s strategy, technology and growth.

Shinaz read Economics at the London School of Economics and spent a summer as an investment banking analyst at Moelis & Company in London. He then joined Deloitte, advising universities, government agencies and school networks in its global education practice before moving to Deloitte Ventures. From 2019 to 2023 he backed education-technology companies as an investor at Emerge Education in London.

He is now co-founder and chief executive of Niyyah, an education app for Muslims. His work has sat between universities, employers and the companies built to connect them, the ground ECS candidates have to cross. Shinaz advises Hassan on the firm’s strategy, operations and growth.

John holds a law degree and has spent more than 15 years in media and communications, beginning as a news and politics correspondent and later running digital editorial across UK and US titles. He spent eight years at GLORY, the international kickboxing organisation, latterly as Head of Brand and Communications, and from 2020 to 2023 led communications for BOXXER during its partnership with Sky Sports Boxing.

He now works as a PR and communications consultant through Drayman, a Manchester-based consultancy. John advises ECS on media relations, reputation and public positioning as an external adviser, not an ECS employee.

Janet manages the operational side of the client experience, including onboarding, scheduling, document coordination, billing administration, progress tracking and day-to-day communication.

She ensures that each engagement runs smoothly and that clients, families and the advisory team have the information and support required at each stage.