• Guy Stubbing has joined multi-sector recruitment consultancy Boston Hale to head up its change & transformation division.

• Global executive search firm Pedersen & Partners has promoted Katharina Kaiser to country manager for Austria. Josef Buttinger, who has led the Vienna office since joining the firm in 2015, will move on to the global industrial practice.

• Mark Hewitt has joined International search and recruitment firm Pure to lead its Interim CFO offering in London.

• Staffline, the recruitment and training group, has appointed the former Harvey Nash CEO Albert Ellis to non-executive director of the company, with immediate effect. Ellis spent more than 21 years at Harvey Nash, the technology recruitment and IT solutions group.

• Rik Esselink, former managing director Europe of Amazon’s subsidiary Ring, joins the leading team of German digital staffing service Zenjob as chief revenue officer. Zenjob provides temporary work to students and employees to firms.