Senior and board executive recruiter Norman Broadbent has appointed Mike Brennan as group chief executive.

Most recently Brennan was a director at talent acquisition and management solutions provider, Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS).

In 1994, Brennan founded Alexander Mann Financial Markets, with investor backing from Alexander Mann Group (AMG). Brennan sold his 50% stake to AMG in 1997. 

Brennan continued as a managing director with AMFM, before leading the sale of the company in 2006 (subsequently branded Akamai Financial Markets). It was sold to Hat Pin on behalf of Advent International Corporation and AMG.

Subsequently, Brennan served as a director of Hat Pin before co-founding Human Capital Resources, and taking the position of CEO. Following this, he re-joined AMS in 2013.

Brennan now joins the Norman Broadbent board, while current executive chairman Scanes Bentley takes on a non-executive chairman role with immediate effect.