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Chris Bone

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CEO and Head of Sales at Haystack
📍 Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Chris Bone is the Co-founder and CEO of Haystack, an AI-powered tech talent marketplace. With an extensive background in recruitment, including roles at Nigel Wright and Michael Page where he launched international offices, he founded Haystack to solve inefficiencies in tech hiring. He earned an MSc from the University of Oxford and a BSc from Boston University.

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He co-founded Haystack with two software engineers who were, in his words, the type of candidates he used to chase as a recruiter, giving them a unique 360-degree view of the problem they aimed to solve.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
CEO and Head of Sales
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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AI in Recruitment
He actively discusses how AI is changing hiring by increasing speed, reducing bias, and automating repetitive tasks for recruiters.
Modern Hiring
Believes traditional tech hiring is broken and advocates for modern, scalable processes like asynchronous interviews and smart screening to save time.
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Career

Work history

1-2020
CEO and Head of Sales
Haystack
1-2017 - 1-2020
Managing Director
Education World Ltd
11-2013 - 1-2017
Head of Specialist Recruitment
NRG (Northern Recruitment Group)
2-2013 - 11-2013
Associate Director
Nigel Wright Recruitment
5-2011 - 1-2013
Associate Director
Nigel Wright Recruitment
In the press

Media appearances

Chris Bone (Haystack): "Chase the vision, not the money ...". Featured in YouTube
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Education
2002 - 2003
MSc
University of Oxford
1997 - 2001
BSc
Boston University
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