The FiveTen Group has appointed Scott McLachlan chief financial officer for its Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

McLachlan has more than 25 years’ experience of financial and general management in commerce and industry, and more than 10 years in the recruitment sector.

He joined Manpower (Australia/New Zealand) in 2001 as director of corporate services and CFO and, for the past two years, he has been at Kelly Services (Australia/New Zealand) as director of finance and corporate affairs.

At FiveTen, McLachlan replaces Mark Luton, who has left the business.

John Rose, FiveTen group chief executive, described McLachlan’s hire as “clearly a major development for the group in our region. With Scott’s leadership style, commercial strengths, management capabilities and market knowledge, we believe he will play a pivotal role in taking our business to the next stage. This appointment also underpins our ambition to become a truly impressive and market-leading business in Asia Pacific.”

McLachlan said he was looking forward to “building on the success of the FiveTen Group in Asia Pacific”.