• 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.

• Maritime and aviation recruitment specialist Faststream Recruitment Group has announced a wave of internal promotions and new hires. In the final quarter of 2025, Faststream promoted seven team members across its UK and Singapore offices. They are: Sebastian Zuliani – associate director to director; Andrew Hargroves – team leader to recruitment manager; Jonathan Pearse – principal consultant to executive consultant; Matthew Barwell – principal consultant to executive consultant; Sasha Josri – lead consultant to team leader; Charlotte Charman – lead consultant to principal consultant; Sufia Algadri – recruitment consultant to senior recruitment consultant. Faststream is headquarters in Southampton and has an international office in Singapore. The company will also be welcoming three new recruitment consultants this month.

• Gi Group UK has announced three key promotions within its Leicester branch. Olga Sikora has been promoted to senior business manager, overseeing both the Nottingham and Leicester industrial divisions. Her focus for 2025 includes growing the client base in Leicester and enhancing collaboration across all Gi Group Holding brands.

Alona Zablocka has been promoted to account executive. With four years at Gi Group, Zablocka is actively involved in improving candidate attraction processes and has built strong relationships with clients and candidates alike.

Jurgita Siplivaite steps into the role of assistant manager. After joining Gi Group with no recruitment experience seven years ago, she has become a key contributor, notably expanding a major account to over 100 staff. 

• Heidrick & Struggles, a global leadership and talent solutions provider, has promoted 17 partners in its executive search and Heidrick Consulting businesses. These leaders are based in 10 cities in seven countries globally.

The individuals promoted to partner, including their practice and city, are: Suhas Anand, Heidrick Consulting (Dubai); Eliza Clemens, technology officers (New York City); Caitlin FitzGerald, consumer markets (New York City); Jerry Gorss, industrial (Boston); Antoine Honoré, Heidrick Consulting (Dubai); Suvi Kitchloo, industrial (Dubai); Francesa Michel, global technology & services (Washington, DC); Neha Mohunta, Heidrick Consulting (Dubai); Adrian Nagy, global technology & services (Copenhagen); Francois-Xavier Ragot, financial services (Brussels); James Raley, financial services (Dubai); Rasmus Riisgaard, financial services (Copenhagen); Tommy Snyder, industrial (Chicago); Matti Takala, industrial (Helsinki); Fabian Tan, industrial (Singapore); Haven Thompson, global technology & services (New York City); Luke Weaver, financial services (Toronto).

• 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.

• Recruitment specialist Sellick Partnership has promoted Katie Ettenfield to associate director in its Leeds office. Ettenfield joined the recruiter in 2017 as a consultant in the legal private practice team, She was then promoted to manager in 2020. Her promotion comes as part of a series of senior appointments and internal promotions at Sellick Partnership, including the promotion of Katherine Busby to associate director of finance, the appointment of Chris Swindell as commercial finance director and Greg Jones as group director.

• 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.