Alex Anderson has been promoted to CFO of Catapult Solutions Group, a Dallas-based staffing firm. Anderson previously served as VP of accounting and finance. He joined Catapult in October 2016; prior to that he was director of finance at Neal Richards Group, a Dallas-based real estate company.

Sim Merekar is country head, Canada operations for Digital Intelligence System, or Disys, which announced the opening of it first office in the country in Toronto.

Online jobs website ZipRecruiter appointed Boris Shimanovsky as chief technology officer to lead teams of engineers and data scientists in the US and Israel; he most recently was senior VP of engineering at Foursquare after its merger with Factual, where he served as CTO. The Santa Monica, California-based company also named Renata Dionello as chief people officer; she most recently led corporate development globally for Sony Playstation.

PrideStaff announced that Paul Shands is the owner/strategic partner of its new office Knoxville, Tennessee.

Staffing provider Addison Group announced an expansion to the Charlotte, North Carolina, market. Leading operations in the market will be Jennifer Wright, senior VP of HR and administrative (HR and administrative); Lindsey Doyle, branch manager (healthcare); Caroline Frank, branch manager (finance/accounting temporary staffing); AJ Lewis, branch manager (finance/accounting, direct hire).

Recruitment firm 20/20 Foresight named Mike Jones as managing director to lead its Washington DC operations. Jones has more than 25 years of experience in real estate.

PandoLogic, a firm that specializes in programmatic recruitment advertising, named Jason Putnam as senior VP of sales. Putnam has 17 years of sales leadership experience and nine of years of experience within the talent acquisition industry. His past roles have included a leadership role at BountyJobs.