Executive search firm Hitchenor Wakeford’s international division has appointed Tom Guy as associate consultant.

Guy joins from Michael Page, where he spent two years based in Moscow as a board member leading the firm’s financial services division.

Guy will work closely with Hitchenor Wakeford managing director John Wakeford, to develop the firm’s international business in emerging markets in Eastern Europe and Russia.

Wakeford says: “The feedback we have from clients is that as international businesses they have been let down by the calibre of candidates being presented by global and locally based search firms for key appointments. Tom’s experience in the Russian market backs this up.”