• Accreate Executive Search: Caroline Baldwin joins as practice leader for commercial functions in Ireland at the search firm.

• Amrop: The executive search firm has taken on new consultants Tim Kemp and Bernard Perry in London, as well as Anne de la Rochelbrochard in Paris and Pavel Stejskal in Prague.

• BCL Legal: The legal recruiter has taken on senior associate Joanne Lack.

• Blue Pelican: New senior consultants Pippa Hutchinson and Alexander Korbeck have joined the technology and pharma divisions respectively at the recruitment specialist.

• BT: After 34 years with the company, high profile HR figure Caroline Waters has stepped down as the telecoms giant’s director of people and policy.

• Cooper Lomaz: Steve Cook and Ben Olive have joined the multi-sector recruiter’s global energy team.

• Eames Consulting: The professional recruiter has promoted Daniel Warwick to director of its Singapore office.

• Global Project Partners: The executive, middle management and engineering recruiter has appointed John Bradshaw as chief strategy and development officer.

• Green Park: The interim and executive search agency has taken on Roger Russell as director to lead its search arm.

• Harvey Nash: The recruitment and outsourcing group will move senior independent non-executive director Julie Baddeley to the role of non-exec chair at its 2013 AGM. Fellow non-exec Ian Davis will add the word ‘senior’ to his job title.

• Kelly Services: Carl T Camden, president and chief executive of the recruiter, has been appointed co-chair of US non-profit policy organisation the Committee for Economic Development (CED). Also, David Elcock will lead Kelly’s specialist accountancy and finance brand Toner Graham as branch manager in the Birmingham office.

• Macildowie: David McDermott has joined the recruiter to specialise in part-qualified accountancy roles.

• Network Rail: Adrian Thomas is to leave his role as head of resourcing at the authority responsible for the UK rail network in February.

• NWM Solutions: Tony Keel has joined the contractor services firm as a regional director.

• Page Executive: The PageGroup firm has appointed Antony Marchant to the position of director in charge of the marketing and communications team.

• Pedersen & Partners: Laurent Pinna joins as regional principal in South-East Asia and Branka Kuzmanovic as a consultant in Croatia at the executive search firm.

• Philips: Alan Agnew has been appointed head of talent acquisition ASEAN [Association of South East Asian Nations] & Pacific at the global electronics company.

• Pod Talent: The newly-launched supply chain, manufacturing and procurement recruiter has taken on Lucy Morgan as a partner.

• SEC Recruitment: Andy Haynes joins the recruitment group as associate director within its IT division.

• Spencer Ogden: Jamie Cork has joined the global energy recruiter as country manager in charge of the newly-opened Dubai office.

• Tempo: Keith Faulkner CBE chairs the new professional membership group for the recruitment industry.

• Zinc Resourcing: The recruitment consultancy has appointed former senior civil servant Paul Speller in the role of director.