Barry Vienet

Barry is passionate about the Health and For-purpose, Community, Government and Not for Profit sectors and handles senior executive roles including CEO, COO and General Management positions.

Barry is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 30 years’ experience in the recruitment industry. During this time he has undertaken hands-on recruitment across a number of industries and disciplines and specialised in building and managing recruitment businesses of varying sizes. He joined Johnson Recruitment as Managing Director at the beginning of 2014 after seven years as Managing Director of Beilby Consulting.

His recruitment career began in 1992, with Morgan & Banks after eight years as an auditor with Deloitte in both Melbourne and London. Followed by two years as the Financial Controller of ITN News, also in London. Over the next six years he built Melbourne’s premier accounting recruitment business.

Barry moved to Singapore in 1998 as Morgan & Banks’ Regional Director for SE Asia, growing the business from 15 to 100 people, before returning to Melbourne in the role of General Manager Victoria and overall responsibility for some 300 people across all Morgan & Banks businesses in Victoria.

Barry is excited about helping clients achieve outstanding success through improved strategic direction and leadership capability across the Lawson HR Group.