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People: Accolo, Adecco, Consilium, TrueBlue, Ciber, PrideStaff, Alder Koten, Versique and Morgan Samuels

July 11, 2014

Firms with personnel announcements this week include Accolo Inc., Adecco, Consilium Staffing, TrueBlue Inc., Ciber Inc., PrideStaff, Alder Koten, Versique Search & Consulting and Morgan Samuels.

Accolo Inc., a Larkspur, Calif.-based cloud recruiting company, appointed Luis Rivera as president to manage growth in the recruitment process outsourcing market. John Younger, founder of the company, remains as chairman of the board. Rivera was most recently president of HumanConcepts and managed its acquisition by Saba Company. Prior to that, he was CEO of Lyris Technologies.

Adecco Engineering & Technical added David Darnell to its senior leadership team as vice president of sales. David previously spent 13 years at Allegis Group. He will report to Senior Vice President Daniel Masata.

Consilium Staffing, a locum tenens staffing firm based in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, promoted Landon Webb to regional vice president. Webb was one of Consilium’s first hires, joining the company in an entry-level position two weeks after the business opened.

Industrial staffing firm TrueBlue Inc. (NYSE: TBI) added Colleen Brown to its board of directors. Brown previously was a senior vice president at broadcast company Belo Corp, and has served on the boards of Career Builder and Classified Ventures.

Ciber Inc. (NYSE: CBR) a Greenwood, Colo.-based information technology staffing and solutions firm, appointed Betsy Atkins as a Class III director of the company, effective July 7, for a term expiring at the 2015 annual meeting of stockholders. Atkins previously was CEO and chair of SaaS-company Clear Standards Inc., a provider of enterprise energy management sustainability software.

PrideStaff, a national staffing organization, announced owner/strategic partner Chan Preston opened a new office in Raleigh, N.C., on July 7.

Global professional services firm Alder Koten, which provides executive search services, appointed Adalberto Garcia as managing partner of its Latin America career transition practice, based in Mexico City. Garcia previously was head of the career transition practice and national operations manager at Lee Hecht Harrison. Eduardo Meouchi also joined the firm as a partner in the CEO and board services practice, working in both the New York and Mexico City offices.

Minneapolis-based Versique Search & Consulting announced Jennifer Britton joined the firm as managing director of consumer packaged goods. Britton brings more than 16 years of consumer packaged goods experience.

Morgan Samuels, an executive search provider, announced Russell Bishop joined the firm as a senior partner in its human capital consulting practice.