WHO WE ARE

The duality of recruitment and industry knowledge forms the foundation of Carter Knight

Carter Knight was founded with the goal to bring real industry experience into the recruitment process. A combination of extensive head hunting experience with exposure to global consulting and banking companies in the areas of strategy, data, analytics, finance and risk enables us to deliver to your requirements with full knowledge of all sides of the hiring journey.


  • Co-Founder

    Ahmad has over 12 years recruitment experience across the UK, Europe and the Middle East focussing on multiple sectors including Financial Services, Consulting, Technology and Retail. 

    Ahmad began his career by delivering talent to the biggest banking integration to take place in Europe, from there he supported clients on innovation and digital transformation across multiple industries.

    Since moving to the Middle East, Ahmad supported a major banking merger in the region working with a range of clients from well funded Fintechs with building out Product and Technology teams to working with Blockchain/Metaverse ventures with company wide build outs. Most recently, Ahmad has supported large Payments businesses with key executive appointments as well as placing top talent across many industries in the Strategy, Restructuring and Transformation space. 

    Ahmad graduated from the University of Sussex receiving first class honours in his Mechanical Engineering degree.


  • Co-Founder

    Prior to founding Carter Knight Luke worked across a number of industries including Financial Services, Boutique Consulting and Global Consulting. His areas of focus included Risk, Analytics and Strategy. 

    Luke commenced his career with AIB before joining Accenture in London working with some of the largest global financial institutions. Through his time there he advised clients across a number of areas including optimising capital allocation for a global insurance company, designing and implementing a risk classification and measurement strategy for a European insurer and using Machine Learning based modelling to reduces losses in portfolios for a UK banking client. He led global teams on client engagements with consultants based in the UK, Europe and South East Asia supporting him.

    Luke holds a Masters in Quantitative Finance from UCD Graduate Business School and a Bachelors degree in Economics and Mathematics from UCD.