IT and pharmaceutical recruiter Levy Associates has appointed Gerard Fransen as managing director.

Fransen joins from Rabobank, where he was responsible for the product development & product management activities in the private banking division. He was previously a non-executive director of Levy’s advising on strategy, organisational structure and business process re-engineering.

Meanwhile, Antony Harper joins as vice-president of business development. He was previously VP at Candex Technologies.