International executive search firms have recently made a number of key appointments, according to the Association of Executive Search Consultants.

Stockholm-based executive search firm Headlight International recently added a third European office in Barcelona.

The Spanish operation will be jointly managed by Pere Aurell and Sonia Montesimos.

Originally founded in Sweden in 2000, the generalist search firm has established an approach where the consultants handle only two parallel assignments in an active phase.

Korn/Ferry International has appointed Suzanne Dalcourt to the San Francisco office as a client partner focusing on the renewable energy, clean technology, corporate social responsibility and broader sustainability markets.

Dalcourt has more than a decade of executive search experience, and has built executive and board teams within high-growth industries across Europe and North America.

Allen J Delattre has also joined the firm’s San Francisco office as technology global market managing director.

Delattre joins Korn/Ferry after more than 20 years at Accenture, where he most recently served as a global managing director in the company’s communications and high technology group.

US executive search company Morgan Samuels has added James Pruett and Michael Sullivan as principals to the firm.

Before joining Morgan Samuels’ Chicago office, Pruett was a senior client partner at Korn/Ferry International and a member of the global financial services practice, concentrating on the real estate sector.

Sullivan, who will be based in the firm’s New York office, comes to Morgan Samuels from Highland Partners where he was co-leader of the chief financial officer practice, and a member of the consumer/retail, financial services, technology and professional services practices.