• Eames Group has appointed non-executive director Phil Sheridan as a board adviser. Sheridan will provide support and guidance to the operational board to drive the company’s growth agenda across multiple service lines, specialisms and geographies. He has held global leadership roles in both professional staffing and consulting organisations. He was part of the global steering team of recruitment agency Robert Half, where he spent nearly 22 years, before moving on to business consulting firm Protiviti, where he was MD. Later working with Morgan McKinley, he built the recruiter’s advisory-led managed services business, Org Group.

• Oyster, the global employment solution to employ, pay and care for distributed teams, has appointed Geraldine MacCarthy as chief revenue officer (CRO) and Marina Farthouat as vice president of people.

MacCarthy joins from Personio, where she also served as CRO. She brings leadership experience from Dropbox and Google, driving revenue growth and scaling international teams. Farthouat, previously with Clickhouse and Elastic, steps into the VP of people role with expertise in remote work, employee engagement and organisational development across tech sectors.

• Executive search firm Starfish Search has appointed five new consultants to support its expansion across the charity, interim and public sectors. The new hires include four principal consultants – Louise Beales, Usma Collins, Alex MacLeod and Tom Ripley – and assistant consultant Emily Lockwood.

Beales will lead interim executive recruitment in the charity sector. Collins and MacLeod bring their experience from the not-for-profit space, while Ripley joins with over a decade of public sector recruitment expertise. Lockwood will support local government recruitment, having recently graduated from the University of Nottingham. The new team strengthens Starfish’s existing presence in London and Leeds and will help extend its services to aligned sectors such as health, social care and regulation.