• Acorn Group: The recruitment and training firm steps up its overseas expansion with the appointment of Wyn James as head of Asia-Pacific.

• Argyll Scott Technology has appointed Richard Brady as contracts director.

• BE Smith: The healthcare executive search and interim firm has appointed Laurie Gehrt as senior vice president, interim leadership and consulting solutions division.

• Berkley Group appointed Ena Vieira in February to launch its new UK offering. The firm will operate in the engineering and pharma & life sciences sectors. Consultant Farzaana Khan also joins the new division.

• Boyden: The international executive search firm has appointed Toby Lapage-Norris as a partner in the UK.

• Dutton International: The independent technical recruiter has appointed John Bratby as construction recruitment manager in its Sheffield headquarters.

• Dunkin’ Brands Group: The parent company of Dunkin’ Donuts has appointed Ginger Gregory senior vice president and chief HR officer.

• Future Executive Search appoints Tom Monaco as principal associate with global responsibility for clean energy recruitment.

• Harvey Nash Group: Lucy McGee heads the leadership services practice for the global provider of professional recruitment and outsourcing services’ executive search division.

• Hays: Graeme Fyfe has been promoted to of director of the firm’s Aberdeen office.

• SourceRight, a Randstad-owned talent acquisition and management firm, has appointed Glen Cathey as vice president of global sourcing and talent strategy in its recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) division, also promoting Eric Jaquith to director of global RPO sourcing strategy.

• Headway Group: The Empresaria-owned recruitment group has appointed Alexander Tan as its new chief executive.

• Meridian Business Support: The multi-sector recruiter has appointed former Blue Arrow managing director Andrew Pettingill as managing director of its industrial, driving and onsite division.

• Now Recruitment: The multi-sector agency has appointed Victoria Ayres as business manager.

• Qui Recruitment: The rec-to-rec firm has appointed Kerri-Ann Hargreaves as director for the Midlands region.

• RDL Corporation: The pharmaceutical, business intelligence and analytics recruitment group appoints Tim Wood as non-executive director of HR & talent.

• Regional Recruitment Services, a multi sector recruiter, makes Kishore Modhwadia senior consultant in its technical and engineering division.

• Russell Reynolds Associates: The search and assessment firm appoints Clarke Murphy president and chief executive, as Matthew Wright steps down.

• Spencer Ogden: The international energy recruiter has appointed Jonathan Leslie-Scott as global business director, Jon Macaulay as director of US, Graeme Lingenfelder head of mining and David Bumby global head of internal recruitment.

• Spirit Pub Company: The UK pub company has appointed Debbie Moore as HR director.

• Square One Resources: The IT and enterprise resource planning (ERP) recruiter has appointed Max Abrahams as head of its internal recruitment function across the UK and Europe.

• Wallace Hind Selection: Phil Monkman has been appointed as a managing consultant at the multi-sector search firm.