January 2012• JOHN SCHLAEFLI has been appointed managing partner at Formula Won Media, a London new media recruitment consultancy.

• EGLE BELZUTE will head up IT and financial services recruiter Bright Purple’s new office in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius, which will serve as its Central/Eastern Europe and Scandinavia HQ.  

• BRIGHTWORK SPECIALIST Recruitment, a subsidiary of Scottish company the Brightwork Group, has appointed Linda Allan as principal consultant in the HR division.

• CERIUS INTERIM Executive Solutions has chosen Laura Drexel as managing director and vice president for its US East Coast operations.

• CONCEPT RESOURCING has promoted Caroline Bingham to the position of lead of its commercial division

• JUDITH ARMATAGE, director of professional development at the Recruitment & Employment Confederation, is leaving the organisation to pursue other opportunities.

• CTPARTNERS, a global retained executive search firm, has appointed Lucy Krell as a partner in its Santiago, Chile office. Ana Claudia Reis joins as a partner in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

• DEVERELL SMITH RECRUITMENT, property recruiter, has promoted Fergus Pryor to head up its land and development management team.

• LINDSAY SESSIONS has been appointed head of HR consulting at Alcumus Group company Drury, outsourcer of HR and health and safety functions.

• EXSURGO has appointed Colin Costello as principal consultant for logistics, specialising in retail markets.

• EGON ZEHNDER INTERNATIONAL has appointed Dick Patton as leader of the executive search firm’s US consumer practice group.

• CATHERINE GLICKMAN has been appointed group HR director of animal breeding technology firm Genus.

• JOEL NAFTAL has been appointed senior associate at market research, analysis and planning recruitment consultancy Hasson Associates.

• LYNETTE EASTMAN has been appointed chief people officer at healthcare recruiter HCL on an interim basis.

• PAM SIME has been selected as the new practice leader for US-based Integrated Healthcare Strategies’ executive search division.

• ROBIN BUCHANAN has been promoted to the position of chairman of the board of Michael Page International.

• ODGERS BERNDTSON has appointed Patrice WL Young as partner in the executive search firm’s global life sciences and healthcare practices.

• PARAMOUNT RECRUITMENT has appointed Ben Stevens as national recruitment manager for the Cardiff-based technical division of the multi-sector recruitment firm.

• PENNA has appointed Adam Shay as head of client development on the HR consultancy’s attraction and communications management team.

• PROFILE has appointed Corinne Winter-Rousset as vice president of business development in the hospitality sector executive search firm.

• RSA UK has appointed Dr David Jay as an associate consultant of the global life sciences executive search and interim management firm.

• NEIL GRIFFITHS is the new global practice leader for the talent communications and employer branding practice of online executive recruiting service Futurestep.

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