Blue Saffron, the managed IT services company, announced that it has appointed Suhail Mirza as a Strategic Advisory Board Member.  Blue Saffron has established the Strategic Advisory Board to address the productivity challenges currently facing mid-market enterprises, which are undergoing significant changes in their working practices. Based in London, Mirza is a former practicing solicitor, a business owner and an author who specialises in helping investor backed businesses in the healthcare, recruitment and support services sectors achieve rapid growth and market share.

Jurek Talents, a Swedish recruitment and staffing agency, announced that it appointed Krishna Patel as UK Country Director. During the spring of 2019 Jurek Talents established an office in London with the ambition to help Swedes affected by Brexit in finding new career opportunities. The initiative was met by an increased demand on site on the UK market. Patel has worked as a recruiter and head of talent for various startups and multinational companies. He has also started and grown his own recruitment and tech companies.

UK-based international recruitment firm Oscar has made two senior promotions to fill the positions of Managing Director for the UK & Europe and the US. Matthew Southworth leaves behind his role as Sales Director to become Managing Director of the UK & Europe while Kevin Holt has been promoted from Director to Managing Director of the Americas. Both will be responsible for the development of the UK & Europe, and US teams respectively. These new appointments aim to assist Oscar on its continued financial trajectory amid plans to expand the company’s global reach. They will also help to grow Oscar’s portfolio of recruitment services and resources across its core sectors, which are split between Oscar Technology, Oscar Energy and Oscar Construction. Both Holt and Southworth started out as trainees at Oscar Group without any previous experience and have progressed throughout the whole of the business’s career structure before rising to their current MD roles.