James McHugh

And I came back

probably late 20s.

My father was my best friend and he was ill for some time and then passed.

I took some time off work to reflect on life and I decided to start a recruitment business and that was probably 28, 29 at that time.

Yeah.

Well, my original...

My original argument for calling it K2 was it's the highest mountain if you measure from sea level and the hardest to climb.

But I heard a much better explanation later on when someone said to me, did you name it K2 because it rhymes with McHugh?

So I said, yeah, that's a much, I'm going to pivot to that one.

Yes.

Well, K2 was always a technology recruiter.

So one of the things we did very well early on was we built a methodology.

So when I worked on a development floor, 100 people, two or three people will hold that project together.

They're your go-to, understand what's happening technically, can answer the questions.

You've got then 70, 80% of the people are just good folk working hard.

And you've probably got 10, 15 guys that should be walked off site immediately.

That's the average balance of it.

So the methodology was identify those two or three.

If all we do as a recruitment company is we're able to tell our clients where those two or three guys are.

So when a project's going wrong, we can say, look, we know who can fix this.