• GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, has appointed Carmelita Lubos as chief talent officer in the UK. A newly created role within the UK leadership team reporting to CEO Tom George, Lubos joins the company from Deliveroo where she was global director of talent in July.

• Penrhyn International, a global network of retained executive search firms, has appointed Yanouk Poirier, a partner at Leaders International, a pan-Canadian firm based in Montreal, as chairman. Frank Beyer of LAB & Company in Germany is appointed vice chair.

Also joining the board is Greg Gabel, managing director of US firm Coleman Lew Canny Bowen. Current chairman Michael Herst of Osprey Clarke in the UK will remain on the board as treasurer. The board is completed by Luce Nordon (Agora Search, France) and Rikke Dolberg (Unique Human Capital, Denmark).

• North Wales-based recruiter Supertemps has appointed Victoria Lycett as business manager at the firm’s Colwyn Bay headquarters. She joined the firm as construction business manager last October.

• Amanda Riley joins executive search specialist TS Grale’s Leeds-based team as principal consultant.