• Global executive search firm Calibre One has appointed Barry Wahlberg as partner. Working from Virginia in the US, Wahlberg will focus on searches covering all aspects of the technology marketplace, with a particular focus on private equity clients both domestic and global. He brings more than a decade of experience in executive search, sales and marketing, and was previously a managing director at ZRG, helping to build the technology practice specialising in software.

• Freshminds has appointed Thom Cunningham-Burley as chief operating officer. He has worked at Freshminds for six years, heading up the consultants on-demand division. As COO, Cunningham-Burley now has an expanded role, which will include heading up company-wide sales enablement and talent development strategy. Freshminds is a specialist firm for management and strategy consulting talent in Europe, from analyst to expert, and for projects across strategy and planning to transformation and change.