Agile-1 named Peter Carvalho as president effective Jan. 1. Carvalho previously served as chief operating officer.

Agile-1 provides managed service provider services and a vendor management system as well as 1099 validation and payrolling services.

Carvalho's staffing industry experience outside of Agile-1 includes 17 years at Remedy and 2 1/2 years at Volt Information Sciences (NYSE: VOL).

Agile-1 is part of the privately held Act-1 Group based in Torrance CA. Act-1 ranked as the largest diversity staffing firm on Staffing Industry Analysts 2009 list of diversity staffing firms. In addition, the company ranked No. 20 on the list of largest U.S. staffing firms.