Division Manager Brando Tessar is leading Beacon Hill Technologies’ new office in Portland, Ore. Part of Boston-based Beacon Hill Staffing Group, the office is the company’s 53^rd location. Tessar has more than four years of experience in the staffing industry.

Slayton Search Partners announced John Ratliff joined the firm as VP and Principal. Ratliff joins from Stanton Chase International.

Executive search firm ZRG Partners named Lauren Lee White as a managing director and member of the firm’s global life sciences practice. White most recently served as global head of executive talent acquisition at Merck Research Laboratories.