Our popular young chef Georgie is right on-trend with the healthy eating generation, creating modern, nutritional canapés and tasting menus for our private and corporate clients who are looking for exciting, different, beautifully-presented food. Georgie adapts to any situation, be it private chef for a month-long family holiday, dinner for an intimate party of 12 or a full canapé party for 150 people or more, with a theme if required. Her specialities are 'non-traditional canapés' and healthy tasting menus, as a lighter alternative to traditional multi-course lunches and dinners. She brings together her favourite influences from Asia, India, the Middle East, Peru and Mexico to create imaginative menus and canapés with a very international flavour. Georgie is also happy to talk to guests about food, flavours and inspiration, to help make an event a truly memorable experience.

Lee is our super-talented in-house head chef, responsible for creating innovative and exciting menus for our sophisticated international clientele. He has collaborated with some of our most high-profile clients, including Lady Elizabeth Anson, founder of Party Planners, who entrusts him with cooking fine dining menus for Her Majesty The Queen, both at Royal Ascot when she has been a guest of Sheikh Hamad Al Thani, and at Castle of Mey in Scotland for private house parties. Lee puts the fun into party menus, and has cooked for 21st, 40th and 50th birthday parties – where fun food such as mini burgers are the order of the day – and has also been flown out to villas in Italy and elsewhere to mastermind the food for both one-off parties and longer-term house parties.

Harriet has been producing private and corporate events, both in the UK and abroad, for 16 years. Having worked for Ronnie Scott's and Lady Elizabeth Anson's Party Planners, Harriet can include Her Majesty The Queen and various rock & roll royalty among past clients, and parties of anything between two and 12,000 guests! Specialising in bespoke production and live entertainment, she believes no challenge is too great, and does not hesitate to leverage her knowledge and contacts in the industry to deliver memorable events at the best possible value.

Graeme has over 25 years' experience working in the VIP parties and events industry. He started his career at The Dorchester, progressing to top London caterer Mustard, where he ran VIP events at virtually every top venue in London for both private and bespoke clients. Graeme has also spent many years working as a Randolphs butler at both private and world-class sporting events such as Royal Ascot and the Wimbledon Championships. He joined our permanent team in 2013 with a brief to maintain and grow our reputation for providing exceptional teams of butlers and high-calibre service staff.

Steven has over 25 years' experience as both a royal butler and as a creator of inspirational and unforgettable events. He served at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, and also worked for the British Embassy in Paris, where it was often necessary to adapt quickly from organising a private dinner for a small number of high-profile guests to masterminding a reception for hundreds or even thousands. Steven also worked at the Lanesborough Hotel in London. The ethos of providing intuitive, faultless service has been followed and practised by Steven throughout his career, and permeates through the staff at Randolphs, the company he started in 1999, which is totally committed to providing the best service possible.

I once had an enquiry for a chauffeur for which part of the job spec was to play tennis with the boss every morning. This wasn't just about sitting in a car, reading a newspaper and waiting for the boss to reappear. It required someone who could interact and form a meaningful working relationship, whilst understanding the obvious boundaries. We successfully placed someone in that job."

Jerome Thomas, who comes from Lorraine in the east of France, has been with Randolphs for four years, expertly running the desk which recruits house managers, butlers, chauffeurs, chefs and occasionally gardeners for high-profile international households. The positions are mainly based in London and the home counties, but placements are made further afield in the UK and also in the US, Australia, Africa and Kuwait.

Here's how Jerome describes his job:

"I feel very lucky to be working on the most prestigious roles at Randolphs, placing the very best candidates in extraordinary and exciting job opportunities.

"A huge amount of work goes into the process, which usually starts when I am contacted by a PA or house manager. Clients come to Randolphs for our 15-year experience, our insight, and also because they know we'll only send them candidates with the right experience and personality – we don't put forward average ones.

"Job descriptions vary widely and sometimes, when there's not a great deal of information, I have to use my experience to understand what's required. We'll then advertise the job on our website, we look for people on LinkedIn, and we contact candidates we have on the books. When we have created a pool of possible candidates, all with at least three years of relevant experience, we then carry out preliminary interviews, request references and finally send a shortlist of CVs to the family or the PA.

"Candidates will then be called in for an interview with the PA, the house manager, the director of the family office or even sometimes the principal: the PAs know their employers and what they expect; but also the candidate has to click with the family. This process can take anything from a couple of weeks to months, but is usually completed in four to five weeks.

"Some of our clients are regular: when you prove yourself they stay with you because they're satisfied with your performance and service. Recruiting at this level is challenging because of the high expectations of the clients, so I'm always happy when we meet those expectations; for example I recently placed a senior role – a chief of staff – who would be working between Monaco, St Moritz and New York, responsible for structuring the operation of all the households, including the yachts and jets.

"I'm equally satisfied when I help to get someone really good into a great job."