• Alex Shaw has joined technical recruiter Advance TRS as principal recruitment consultant, focusing on permanent recruitment for the water, wastewater, river engineering and flood risk sectors. She is based in Port Solent, Portsmouth.

• Peter Searle, the current executive chairman at global workforce solutions provider Airswift and former CEO of UK and Ireland at recruitment giant Adecco, has joined ‘labour-as-a-service’ staffing platform Broadstone as a non-executive director. Broadstone has also made two new senior hires: Manish Dev has been appointed chief financial officer and Tracey Kitchen is head of compliance.

• Naomi Howells has been promoted from operations manager to managing director of regional educational recruitment specialist Class People. Howells will now work with CEO Lynis Bassett on strategic development of the business.

• Chris Wood joins financial and professional services recruiter Eames Consulting Group’s compliance team in London as senior consultant.

• Female Executive Search, the executive recruitment platform designed to promote boardroom equality, has promoted France Dequilbec to managing director. She was previously head of international talent acquisition.

• MyPeople Group, a provider of cloud-based relationship and performance analytics solutions, has appointed Wendy Kilgannon as sales manager.

• Recruitment and executive search business Oceans Group, part of the Australian-headquartered Harrier Group, has appointed Michelle Rubinstein managing director.

• International executive search firm Pedersen & Partners has added Jenny Wong as a client partner in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

• Boutique legal recruitment consultancy Realm Recruit welcomes Lucy Wickham as junior consultant. Joseph Shenton and Paula Pawlowska are promoted to senior consultant.