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October 09, 2020

LandrumHR, a staffing firm based in Pensacola, Florida, announced Brett Keirstead will serve as its chief revenue officer. Keirstead lives in Minneapolis and published his book We Are All Sales People last February. He most recently was chief revenue officer for GlobalVetLink; he also previously served as VP of sales and marketing for staffing software firm Avionté.

Sameer Penakalapati is CEO of the newly launched ProcureWise VMS provider. Penakalapati is also founder of staffing software firm Ceipal.

AMN Healthcare Services Inc. (NYSE: AMN) appointed Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams to its board of directors. Trent-Adams is a leader in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and has served as deputy surgeon general and acting surgeon general of the US. Trend-Adams also received the Meritorious Service Medal for leadership for her work on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the International Red Cross Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest international honor given to a nurse.

TalentLaunch, a nationwide network of independently operated staffing firms, hired Erin Kamenoff as VP of talent operations and Kortney Harmon as director of learning and development. Kamenoff has 30 years of experience in staffing at Advantage Resourcing, where she most recently served as senior VP, automotive. Harmon comes to TalentLaunch from MRINetwork, where she was a professional development manager.

Solomon Page, a New York-based staffing provider, named Jacob Navon as global head of asset management and appointed David Trevena as director of asset management. Navon and Trevena will be based in New York. Both executives join Solomon Page from Westwood Partners.

Executive search firm Raines International named Kathryn Bardi and Melissa Oszustowicz as senior VPs. Bardi will serve as senior VP in Raines’ leadership and organization transformation practice, and she will be based in Chicago. Bardi joins Raines from Bain and Co. Oszustowicz joins as senior VP and head of Raines’ agribusiness practice; she will be based in Minneapolis. Oszustowicz comes from Heidrick & Struggles International Inc.

Korn Ferry (NYSE: KFY) announced Jeff Constable will serve as senior leader and global co-head of its financial officers practice.

TempSmart Staffing Solutions, a staffing firm serving the homebuilding industry, appointed Scott Doig as Atlanta division manager.

Ivanna Guerra is the owner of AtWork’s new staffing franchise in Denver, the company’s first franchise in Colorado.

Jody Christiansen is leading Beacon Hill Associates’ new Minneapolis office.

Procurement software firm Coup Software Inc. (NASDAQ: COUP), which also provides a VMS, named Michelle Brennan as a board member, increasing the size of its board to seven directors from six.