The Association of Professional Staffing Companies announced its new Representative Committee, which will take responsibility for shaping the strategy and direction of the trade association until 2020.

Nominations for APSCo’s Representative Committee were open to any member director and the election campaign ran over the last two months. The committee comprises 13 recruitment company representatives, one affiliate member and three APSCo permanent committee members.

“Once again, we had an exceptionally strong field of candidates, all of whom fought incredibly hard to canvas enough support to be elected to the committee and I’d like to thank everyone who put themselves forward, nominated others and voted,” said APSCo Chief Executive Ann Swain.

APSCo’s new elected committee members are:

• Yvette Cleland, Clinical Professionals
• Belinda Brooke, Morgan Hunt
• Ben Weston, Guidant Group
• Jon Cox, CCL
• Russell Thompson, LMA
• Caroline Vooght, Expion
• Adam Fletcher, Ignata
• Kalpesh Baxi, SThree
• Paul Kirby, Darwin Recruitment
• Pete Holliday, Sopra Steria Recruitment
• Simon Clarke, Harnham
• Stephen Rookes, NES Global Talent
• Andy Foskett, Parity Professionals

New affiliate member representative:

• Dan McGuire, Cube 19

Permanent members:

• Ann Swain, chief executive, APSCo
• Samantha Hurley, operations director, APSCo
• Stephen Hill, financial director, APSCo