Phaidon International announced the promotions of six people. Nick Barber, Oliver Hayes, Alec Rahman-Jones and Kareem Bakr have been all been promoted to managing directors, USA. Matthew Nicholson was promoted to managing director, Selby Jennings Europe; Jack Trudeau has been promoted to global head of partnerships.
SSi People, an IT, engineering and professional staffing provider, named Manny Vidal as executive VP of strategy and development. Vidal has more than 20 years of experience. He has served in executive roles for the past 10 years at Matlen Silver.
FinTech recruiter Storm2 announced that Adam Buck will serve as chairman. Buck is the founder and former chairman of Phaidon International. In addition, Storm2 named Victoria Maloney as nonexecutive director; Maloney formerly served as global operations director for SThree plc.
Colorado State Senator and former State Representative Angela Williams will join Stride Inc. as senior director, external affairs. Stride is the new brand for education and training firm K12 Inc. (NYSE: LRN).
Professional staffing firm Vaco expanded its New York office by launching technology and staffing divisions; managing partner for the office is Michael Doud. Joining Vaco in 2018, Doud has more than 20 years of executive, sales, services and consulting experience. Prior to Vaco, he was senior VP of strategic accounts at Robert Half International.
Executive search firm Raines International reported that Mercedes LeGrand has joined the firm as managing director based in Washington. LeGrand will lead Raines’ aerospace, defense and government services practice. She comes to Raines from Russell Reynolds.
Executive search firm ON Partners promoted three of its consultants. Danny Bolger and Jake Espenlaub were named partners and Tindall Sewell was named VP. The three consultants, together, have nearly 30 years of experience.
John Weisel joined executive search firm ZRG as global leader of its professional and technology services practice. Weisel previously served in executive roles Ernst and Young as well as Accenture.
Nextaff announced that Don Hay is the owner and operator of its new staffing agency location in Atlanta.
Staffing software platform WurkNow Inc. announced Robert Lawrence will serve as its VP for West Coast sales in California.