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Tray Durrant

Managing Director

Tray is an experienced, strategic recruiter and leader with a strong sales background across a broad recruitment career. She has managed and led a well-known brand in support recruitment as well as a leading finance brand.

Tray has been a business mentor for The Prince’s Trust and set up a career mentoring business, providing career guidance for 16-25 year olds. She has provided subject matter expertise to Editorials, The Times and The Evening Standard. In 2006 she was one of Who’s Who young Entrepreneurs and in 2008 she came runner up in the Business Women of Achievement Awards.

Tray is Managing Director at Bain and Gray and is instrumental in the growth of the business. In addition, along with Emily Bain she is responsible for launching the unique Links at Bain and Gray network and directory.

Tray Durrant

Latest Blogs & insights

AI Resources
by Tray Durrant - June 18, 2026
After nearly three decades in recruitment and career coaching, one thing is clear to our MD Tray: the people who stay relevant are not those who know the most today, but those who learn the fastest. This blog explores how the industry has evolved from faxed CVs to AI-enabled hiring, and why the real challenge now is less about technology itself and more about how we build capability for what comes next.
Behind the Desk
by Tray Durrant - June 04, 2026
For a long time, operational support functions were seen as purely administrative. Assistants, business support professionals, and operations teams were there to organise, coordinate, and keep things running smoothly in the background. That view is starting to feel outdated and Tray Durrant explores why.
Behind the Desk
by Tray Durrant - February 05, 2026
Q1 is the most strategically powerful moment in the hiring calendar. Our Managing Director, Tray, shares why securing exceptional business support early in the year creates calmer leadership, sharper decision-making and long-term operational momentum.
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