• Berwick Partners, part of global executive search group Odgers Berndtson, has appointed Simon Betts as principal consultant. Betts brings more than 12 years’ specialist recruitment experience, most recently from the executive search division of a global recruiter. At Berwick Partners, Betts will strengthen the industrial practice nationally with a specific focus on the South-West and West Midlands regions.

• Employment and regulatory specialist law firm Constantine Law has appointed Lucy Bloom as employment partner. Bloom is an experienced employment lawyer and joins from Osborne & Wise, where she was a partner. She has advised on both employers and senior executives on all aspects of employment law, including advisory, transactional and contentious work.

• Mployee, the front and mid-office platform for the staffing industry, has appointed Karen Weebers as the new CEO. With the appointment of Weebers as the new CEO, Mployee aims to continue its growth strategy and realise further development and growth.

• The Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) has appointed Hannah Ahmed as its new board member. Ahmed founded and is managing director of HG Group, a recruitment company formed nearly five years ago that works in the nursing, critical care, midwifery/neonatal and mental health sectors. She has worked for the NHS as a trust liaison co-ordinator.

• WithYouWithMe, the social impact firm that helps firms solve their digital skills shortages, has appointed James McLaughlin as UK vice-president. McLaughlin, formerly director of business development at tech-for-good firm Board Intelligence, where he spent nearly four years, brings with him more than 10 years’ experience in sales and business development in the B2B technology space. He will be responsible for heading up WithYouWithMe’s UK operation from its London HQ and delivering on its strategic objectives for growth and business development.