About me

I’m Andrew Swinley, and I run Expert People Solutions. Before starting EPS, I spent two decades in senior People & Culture roles across global corporations, VC-backed startups, and scaling SMEs — in Asia, the UK, and beyond.

I’ve built HR functions from scratch. I’ve inherited broken ones and rebuilt them. I’ve sat in boardrooms explaining why the business needs to invest in its people, and I’ve sat across from founders at 11pm helping them navigate a termination they didn’t see coming.

That range of experience is exactly what I bring to every client. Not theory. Not a playbook downloaded from the internet. Real, pressure-tested expertise from companies that were growing fast and couldn’t afford to get it wrong.

Why fractional?

Here’s what I kept seeing: founders who knew they needed proper HR support but couldn’t justify a six-figure salary for a full-time hire. So they’d muddle through. They’d Google employment law at midnight. They’d copy a contract template from a mate’s company. They’d promote their best individual contributor into a management role and hope for the best.

It rarely ended well.

I started EPS because founders deserve access to senior HR expertise at the point they actually need it — not two years later when they can finally afford a Head of People. Fractional means you get the experience of a seasoned HR leader, on your terms, at a price that makes sense for where your business is right now.

The stuff that keeps founders up at night

Hiring the wrong people. Losing the right ones. Falling foul of employment regulations you didn’t know existed. Building a culture by accident instead of by design. Watching your best people burn out because nobody’s thinking about how the team actually functions.

That’s my territory. Whether it’s compliance, culture, recruitment, onboarding, performance, leadership development, or the hundred small decisions that shape how your people experience your company — I’ve done it all, and I can help you get it right the first time.