Luke Gough - CEO / Founder

Luke started his recruitment career in March 2011 when he joined a boutique recruitment firm in London, specialising in the finance & accounting space, recruiting directly into the Financial Services. He built up a strong candidate and client base across different areas of the sector including; retail & investment banking, investment management, brokerage and the exchange space.

In January 2016 Luke moved to Australia to set up and launch their Australia office based in Sydney. This was a great opportunity for him to start an office from scratch and to continue to take the firm global. Here he specialised within the governance space of compliance, risk and audit recruiting into all areas of Financial Services, including investment & retail banking, Investment management, brokerages and exchanges. 

In 2023 Luke founded and launched Avidity Recruitment and is excited at the opportunity to continue to grow the business Australia wide.

Luke is also the Regional Advisor for The Outstanding Security Performance Awards (OSPAs) for Australia and New Zealand.            

Before recruitment, Luke was a golf professional for six years and in 2007 he became a fully qualified PGA golf professional after completing the three year PGA degree course, attached to the University of Birmingham.

In 2009 he moved to the Island of Madeira where he was the head golf professional at one of the golf resorts on the Island. He found this a great life experience and managed to learn Portuguese whilst there. He gained managerial experience there and assisted in making the golf club run as smooth as possible, along with teaching golf to the members and tourists.