Maddy is our Senior Executive Assistant & Head of Internal Communications. In this role, she supports the strategic and operational goals of ibex gale by acting as an extension to the Directors, whilst having responsibility for internal communications and identifying risks and opportunities.

Before joining ibex gale, Maddy spent 3 happy years at Seasalt as Executive Support.

She has experience working for other high-profile brands including Stella McCartney, where she was EA to the Creative Director.

Maddy lives in Cornwall where she can indulge her passion for surfing and the sea.

Mariella graduated from the University of West of England with a first-class degree in Business and Events Management and is enthusiastic about social media and digital marketing. Prior to joining ibex gale, she worked as Digital Marketing Administrator. Outside of work, Mariella enjoys going to the gym and training her ex-racehorse.

Melanie specialises in carrying out a wide variety of disciplinary and grievance investigations, often involving complex matters of discrimination and harassment. 

She has extensive employee relations and employment law experience gained through her HR roles in the financial sector while working for American Express, and in the technology and electronic sector whilst working for the National Air Traffic Services.  

Prior to joining ibex gale Melanie worked as a senior consultant in a boutique employment law and employee relations firm providing support to a wide range of clients from small, local firms to multinational blue chips.

Melanie has a BA (Hons) in Business Studies, a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management and is a Chartered Member of the CIPD.

When she’s not at work Melanie is a keen cyclist and enjoys walking her whippet with her family.

Mark is a successful FTSE 250 HR Director turned consultant. After graduating in Chemistry and a brief stint in the industrial chemicals sector, Mark changed track and retrained into HR. His early HR career provided a solid grounding in the unionised public sector, and his last two in-house HR roles have been senior leadership positions in global blue chip manufacturing companies through periods of intense change.

In previous job positions Mark has been responsible for reward, engagement, recruitment, talent, L&D, comms, diversity, legal compliance, HR systems, management development, organisational design, wellbeing and CSR.

Mark set up his own HR practice in 2017 and has since been engaged in various interim and project roles around business transformation which have been very hands on. He also has a passion for developing the HR Strategy to support the business, particularly around developing individuals and teams. He says people would describe him as international, numerate, ethical, pragmatic and commercial.

What drives and intrigues him is creating work teams that do brilliant work, have fun, volunteer for responsibility and take care of one and other. Outside of work Mark loves to be outdoors cycling or hiking, and serves on the board of trustees for Caring in Bristol.