Artemis is a specialist Legal, HR and Executive recruitment agency that delivers the best placements through a seamless process for all. Named after the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis mirrors her strength and protective nature. New Zealand owned and operated, Artemis prides itself on its professional but authentic customer service and its accessibility to its clients and candidates. We act with integrity, ensuring all parties best interests are at the heart of every decision.
Ka mua Ka Muri – looking back in order to move forward
We believe true innovation takes lessons from the past and applies new ways of thinking to approach challenges in a changing business environment. Artemis combines a culture of innovation and a high performing team, with a base of continuously improving technologies and processes to deliver high quality recruitment services to clients and candidates. We embrace the best of the past and boldly look to the future.
We actively demonstrate the future of work ourselves – the Artemis team is best described as an agile values based community. We are a diverse team of people who all work flexibly in all regards including location, hours – and attitude! We are committed to the goals of doing a great job, enjoying what we do and of living life well, and in doing so we assist others to do the same.
Our Team
Kathryn launched Artemis Executive Recruitment in April 2016. Artemis is the culmination of her long-held vision to lead an executive recruitment consultancy that is true to the values of honesty, integrity, transparency and professionalism, and where relationships are based on long term commitment and understanding rather than a series of transactions.
Having commenced her career as a commercial and property lawyer, Kathryn has since held a variety of senior leadership roles within the recruitment and executive search industry. She offers an extensive and effective network. She holds a Bachelor of Music (Voice) and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Auckland, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resources (Monash).
Kathryn Cross
Managing Director
Rene has a strong customer-service centric focus and is committed to providing a high quality experience for our clients and candidates. She has a warm interpersonal style that ensures the Artemis community experiences a high standard of service delivery and she is an accomplished senior search professional.
Rene Eckardt
Associate Director
Since returning to the workforce after raising her three children, Lara has joined Artemis as their Candidate Manager. She is passionate about helping progress the careers of others through sharing her extensive experience and knowledge. Lara is also delighted to be back working with Kathryn Cross.
Lara holds a Bachelor of Laws with Honours and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Auckland. She has been admitted to the High Court of New Zealand, as well as to the Supreme Court of England and Wales.
Lara Gordon
Candidate Manager
Marike is renowned for her outstanding time and project management ability and ensures our team is well supported while always working to the highest standards of process integrity and professionalism.
Marike has considerable experience working in professional services and holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Law from the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, which enables her to have a good understanding of the legal profession.
Marike van Vreden
Team Coordinator
With a strong background in human resources delivery in professional services, corporate, and the education sectors Linley knows what it takes to succeed in high performing cultures. Her expertise encompasses the full employee life cycle, sourcing and selection, change management, HR process and operations, talent management, and implementation of business aligned people strategies. Linley also carries out pro bono work in this space to assist charitable and social service organisations achieve their people and organisational goals in fiscally challenging environments.
Linley has a Master of Science in Psychology, a Masters of Education endorsed in Counselling. More recently, she has achieved a Diploma of Visual Arts simply to indulge another of her passions – contextual art.
Linley Bell-Galbraith
People & Culture Manager
She has worked in a number of global leadership and coaching roles within the legal, financial services, manufacturing, FMCG and educational sectors.
Nathalie is part of the Artemis collective of independent experts. Her qualifications as a psychologist, corporate banker and HR professional create a unique approach that balances behavioural insight and organisational development knowledge with pragmatic commercial applicability.
An experienced conference speaker; Nathalie has spoken at many conferences on the topics of leadership, talent and organisational alignment.
Nathalie holds a Masters of Arts (Hons) in Psychology. She is a Chartered Banker (ACIBS Associateship of Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland), Chartered HR Professional (CIPD Qualified Chartered Institute Personnel and Development) and a Certified Coach (Certificate in Coaching Practice, Strathclyde University).
Nathalie Gray
Consulting Partner