• Adecco: The recruitment group’s chief HR officer Christian Vasino will leave the firm at the end of the year to take up the same role with an as yet unnamed Italian multinational.

• BIE Group: Emma-Claire Kavanagh and Simon Moore join the interim management and executive recruiter as equity partners. Philip Grinhaff is senior finance search specialist.

• Bright Purple: Brian Forbes has joined the Scottish recruiter as head of its Central European operation, based in Lithuania.

• CTPartners: Eduardo Taylor joins the global executive recruiter as managing partner for Mexico after the acquisition of his firm by the company. CTPartners also has a new global head of its professional services practice, Michael A Matella.

• EA Consulting Group: The change management recruitment and consulting firm has taken on Mark Peacock as head of its new talent partnering offering.

• EADS: The aerospace and defence firm has moved Lars Immisch to the role of executive vice president for HR at its new Airbus defence and space division.

• Executives Online: The interim and exec recruiter has taken on Graham Thomson as retail practice director.

• Exsurgo: Neil Syred has joined the retail and consumer recruiter as an associate director.

• Fircroft: The technical staffing specialist has brought in Stuart Hall as chief finance officer.

• H1 Healthcare: Jay Sihota is the new UK business manager at the recruitment and training firm.

• Kelly Services: Natalia Shuman is promoted to senior vice president and general manager for EMEA and APAC.

• Laurence Simons: The international legal recruiter has taken on Chris Cayley as EMEA managing director.

• McLean Partnership: The new search and management consultancy’s interim management division is led by senior partner Chris Bernard. Alan Horn joins the division as a director.

• Omni: The RPO provider has appointed Martin Wainman to the newly-created role of business development director.

• PepsiCo: The consumer brand has taken on Katharine Robinson, AKA The Sourceress, as a talent acquisition sourcing specialist on a 12-month contract.

• Roc Search: Thom Leeser has been appointed to lead the IT and engineering recruiter’s new Frankfurt office.

• Royal Mail: Liza Strong arrives as group head of talent and succession from a similar role at telecoms firm Everything Everywhere.

• RP International: The professional recruiter has taken on Ute Jess and Sonia Soni to launch its first office in mainland Europe, near Stuttgart in Germany.

• Sellick Partnership: The legal and financial recruiter has taken on Simran Khanijau in the new role of HR adviser.

• Social Media Search: The social media sourcing firm has taken on new client services manager Billy McDiarmid and six new client relationship managers: Haroon Azam, Marc Crichton, Tracy Lott, Jennifer McDougall, Craig McHugh and Joseph Weir.

• SR Group: Michael Ilert will lead the recruitment group’s new Dusseldorf office as a partner in its HR brand Frazer Jones. Miriam Kuepper is the head of SR’s legal brand Taylor Root in Germany. Both are internal promotions.

• Thales Group: Rob Hilder has joined the multinational technology firm as head of sourcing for the UK.

• WilsonHCG: The US RPO firm has promoted Cynthia Canio to vice president of recruitment, and Kim Pope to the equivalent role for sales & marketing.