Interim management provider Interim Partners has appointed Jo Sands as head of food and drink. Sands previously spent more than four years at Odgers Berndtson where she built a successful interim consumer practice specialising in FMCG, consumer durables and food and drink.

Professional staffing recruiter Barclay Meade, part of the Matchtech Group, has appointed Giles Cameron as head of permanent commerce and industry finance. The former manager at financial recruiter Walker Dendle will specialise in recruiting permanent senior level roles within the commerce & industry clients.

Umbrella firm Parasol has appointed Rodger Armstrong as commercial director. He will be responsible for Parasol’s commercial strategy overseeing sales, marketing and business development activity for Parasol’s family of companies.

Global life sciences executive search and interim management specialist RSA has appointed Perry Evans as director. Evans was previously with the RSA Interims team.

RPO provider Resource Solutions, part of the Robert Walters Group, has appointed Janine Chidlow as the team UK head.

Multi-sector recruiter Synergy People Solutions has appointed Stuart Wilkinson and Gemma Joyce as divisional managers to head up its logistics & transport and construction divisions respectively.

Directors at HR recruiter Digby Morgan - Matthew Chester and Dona Battat - have been promoted to the executive board of the company.

Jamie Harding has joined Alderwood Education as operations manager to further develop the firm’s schools team.

Commercial and industrial recruiter Blue Arrow has appointed Karen Orton as regional director for the Midlands and West region. Orton joins from Katie Bard, part of the Angela Mortimer Group. She will be responsible for the operational management and strategic development of her regions.

Executive search firm CTPartners has appointed Mark Dixon and Sam Stylianou as partners in its financial services practice. Dixon joins CTPartners from Hutton Consulting, a specialist financial services boutique, where he was head of the technology practice. Stylianou joins from financial executive search firm Armstrong International.

Talent management firm True North Human Capital has appointed John Hunter to the board. Hunter is also director of IT recruiter Argyll Scott Technology.

Executive search firm Warren Partners has appointed Sally Johnson as director. Johnson was previously a partner at executive search firm The Orcid Partnership.

Multi-sector recruiter Now Recruitment has appointed Jon Evans to head up its new education division in Cardiff.

HB RIDA, the joint venture between the Recruitment Industry Development Agency (RIDA) and private equity firm Hamilton Bradshaw, has appointed Sam Morris as investment director.

The Interim Management Association (IMA) has appointed managing director at Russam GMS, Jason Atkinson, as chair, with Raj Tulsiani, co-founder and chief executive at Green Park Executive Resourcing, as vice chair for the organisation.

US executive search firm Diversified Search Odgers Berndtson has appointed Lonnie Taylor as managing director in the Washington DC office.