Founder Simon Garbett is stepping away from the network he launched and developed to retire. The new owners are Simon Bliss, who will chair the organisation, and Ian Nash, non-executive.

Bliss has been a TEAM member for nine years, as MD and major shareholder of Principal People before selling to the Juhler Group, a Scandinavian recruitment organisation. 

Nash has held senior executive roles at Michael Page and Robert Walters. He is now chair and non-executive to a portfolio of recruitment organisations in the UK and around the world. 

A TEAM statement said that the new owners have “exciting and ambitious plans” for the recruitment membership and support organisation.

Garbett will stay on as a consultant until “at least the end of 2021”, Bliss said.

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