At Patch Personnel, our track record is due to the seasoned recruitment professionals and technical experts we have on board to partner with our clients and candidates. Our team understand the challenges of the Oil & Gas, Engineering, and Construction sectors firsthand. Get to know the people guiding our work and shaping your success.
David Styles
Managing Director | Executive & Subsurface
David is an experienced recruitment consultant and leader with extensive and well established networks in the Australian and New Zealand Oil and Gas sectors.
He started his career in 2001 with the larger recruitment consultancies and has held senior roles with companies including Hays, Randstad and NES Global Talent.
David has recruited for the Australian and New Zealand oil and gas sector since 2010 and was one of the co-founders of Patch Personnel, taking the years of training and investment in his development that he had received in his earlier career to establish what has become one of Australia’s leading Oil and Gas recruitment businesses.
He is an Oil and Gas subsurface recruitment specialist who brings the required breadth and depth of knowledge to understand the specific technical challenges that particular projects or assets may present. He has the networks and capabilities to identify and engage individuals and teams with the required skills and backgrounds to meet the requirements.
Matt Burnett
Recruitment Manager | Construction & Infrastructure
Matt has over 16 years of recruitment experience working within the Civil, Construction and resources sectors globally. Matt spent the first 4 years of his recruitment career in the UK, working across trades and labour for the south east of England.
Matt accepted a position early 2011 to move to Australia and continue his career in a white-collar technical desk, with his main focus on Civil and Mining Construction. In 2014 Matt progressed to management level positions to build and grow recruitment teams with Civil, Resources, Construction and Property and Oil & Gas.
Sally Alexander
Principal Consultant | Wells | Subsurface | Engineering | Environment | Land | Safety
Sally Alexander brings over 11 years of specialist recruitment expertise across the Oil and Gas sector in Australia and New Zealand. Her track record spans global E&P majors, service companies, emerging small-to-mid cap operators and local service and contracting partners.
Known for her technical fluency and deep industry network, Sally specialises in off-market search and direct approach recruitment. She partners closely with clients to identify technically strong candidates who also align with the unique culture and operational demands of each organisation.
Sally’s methodical and relationship-driven approach delivers trusted outcomes for long-term workforce capability in high-performance environments.
Chris Connell
Non-Executive Director
As an experienced and respected business leader with over 30 years of experience in senior leadership roles, Chris supports the growth of the team and business with his knowledge of the mentoring industry and strong commercial insights.
Greg Savage
Management Board Advisor
With a career spanning four decades, Greg is a founder of 4 highly successful businesses, is a trusted advisor and respected voice across the global recruitment and professional services industries, and a regular keynote speaker at conferences around the world. He is on the Advisory Board of 10 recruitment companies in Australia and New Zealand.
An early adopter of social media for recruiting, Greg’s industry blog – The Savage Truth – is a must-read for recruitment consultants, while his Twitter feed similarly attracts thousands of followers from around the world.
In 2015 Greg was voted ‘The most influential person in the Australian recruitment industry in the past 60 years’.