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cph, the leading specialist provider of in-sourced direct recruitment solutions, has appointed Nigel Bromley as a Non-Executive Director.

Bromley is a Chartered Director with a strong track record of developing businesses within the utilities, energy and environmental sectors in the UK and Europe. He founded, and is now the Non-Executive Chairman of Gemserv, a leading market structure change agent within the industries it serves. He also led Gemserv’s acquisition and substantial re-development of Red Island Consulting, a leading global information security company.

Commenting on his appointment, Bromley said, "I immediately identified with cph’s superb business proposition and track record, especially with emerging and medium sized companies, and am proud to be able to represent such a high quality consulting firm".

Jerry Wright, co-Founder of cph said, "There are many companies in the energy, utilities and environmental markets that would benefit from cph’s service offering and Nigel’s knowledge, experience and network in these sectors will be invaluable to us as we continue to diversify".

cph, the leading specialist RPO solutions provider for mid-market and emerging companies, has signed a business partnering agreement with LakeMR, a niche RPO/MSP based in San Francisco.

Commenting on the agreement, Scott Russell, cph's co-Founder/CEO, said "We view this new partnership as a significant step forward in developing our channels to market. We have a proven track record in providing proactive, onsite recruitment support to US technology and digital companies that are looking to expand their business into the UK/EMEA region. Given LakeMR's market position in providing RPO services to early stage and emerging tech companies in Silicon Valley, we represent a logical extension to their service offering, enabling them to now offer support to their clients through the next stage in their development".

In 2010 cph established a JV company in Sydney to provide RPO support for clients that are expanding into the APAC region.

Celerant Consulting, a leading international operational consultancy firm, has signed a new longer-term in-sourced recruitment services agreement with cph, the specialist RPO solutions provider for medium sized companies. cph has been working with Celerant since last April, building and managing a direct candidate sourcing model for all their EMEA region permanent hires.

David Leech, Celerant's EMEA HR Director commented, "This new contract will enable both firms to build on the platform we have already established, further developing our talent pipelining and resource planning activities, and planning initiatives to strengthen the Celerant employer brand".

"cph has a strong focus on the consulting and professional services sectors and this new agreement is further evidence of our ability to really add value to forward thinking and ambitious firms operating in this market", added Jerry Wright, cph’s co-Founder/CEO.

Specialist in-sourced direct recruitment solutions provider, cph, has signed an RPO contract with one of the UK’s leading Internet Service Providers, TalkTalk Group.

The contract commenced last month with a dual location, fully embedded cph recruitment team in place and the implementation phase is due to be completed in January 2012. TalkTalk’s decision to outsource recruitment was part of a wider strategic move to create a group-wide HR Shared Services. The objective is to deliver a one-stop shared service recruitment function for the business with a direct candidate sourcing model as a core component. cph had previously delivered an RPO solution to TalkTalk’s B2B division.

Nigel Sullivan, TalkTalk Group’s HR Director, commented: “We are delighted with the appointment of cph as our RPO provider and are confident we will develop a strong partnership over the next few years. Throughout the RPO provider selection process cph consistently demonstrated an understanding of TalkTalk’s requirement to have a Shared Service solution which provided excellent value for the Group and a high degree of flexibility to meet the needs of a rapidly changing business”.

Jerry Wright, co-Founder/CEO of cph, added: “We are delighted to have been chosen as TalkTalk’s partner at a time of tremendous opportunity for them with their moves into the TV and online space. We look forward to building on our successful relationship with TalkTalk Business over the last 18 months. The agreement represents another important milestone for us – our first RPO contract for a major UK public company.”

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cph, the leading specialist provider of in-sourced direct sourcing solutions, continues to strengthen its client delivery team and has made four new additions over the last month.

Amanda Law and Mathew Norval have joined as on-site Resourcing Consultants in the North West and Alexis Ward has joined as a Recruitment Coordinator. Tom Couldwell has joined as a Senior Recruiter, working onsite with a major IT services sector client in London.

Commenting on the new appointments, Jerry Wright, Joint MD of cph, said, “We are delighted that we continue to attract high calibre recruits to our client delivery team. Experienced recruiters who are looking to move into an on-site role are very confident about our business model as well as the training and personal development we provide to help them transition successfully into a corporate environment”.

cph recently reported strong growth in its last financial year and plans to make further additions to its team over the next few months.

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cph, the leading RPO solutions provider for medium-sized and high growth companies, has enjoyed a highly successful 2010/11 financial year. For the year ending Sept 30th 2011 the firm achieved a 70+% growth in revenue.

"Given that economic conditions continue to be challenging, we are delighted with the progress we have made over the last year" said Jerry Wright, co-Founder/MD of cph.

"We remain very confident that we have got both our market positioning and service offering right, and hope to achieve further significant growth over the next twelve months. We have made a significant investment in new staff, infrastructure and marketing over the last year and hope to reap the rewards from this in terms of future revenue and profit growth", added Wright.

"We expect to provide details of a major new RPO contract win in the near future, on the back of two new contract ‘wins’ we have announced in the last few weeks", added Scott Russell, cph's other co-Founder/MD.

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TagMan, the global leader in tag management is working with cph, the leading specialist provider of in-sourced direct sourcing solutions, to support their rapidly growing and successful business.

TagMan is looking to double in size over the next twelve months and sourcing quality candidates with a passion for digital marketing has become a priority.

Under the arrangement, an experienced cph recruiter is working onsite directly with TagMan's management team, overseeing the complete recruitment and selection process.

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cph, the leading specialist provider of in-sourced direct sourcing solutions, has appointed Lesley Taylor to the newly created position of Head of Client Services, with overall responsibility for service delivery across all their UK accounts.

Taylor is in her fourth year with cph and has managed three of their major technology sector accounts during that time. She joined cph from one of the major recruitment outsourcing companies having previously worked for specialist agencies and search firms.

Commenting on the appointment, Jerry Wright (co-Founder/MD of cph) said, "Lesley's promotion represents both a significant development in our organisation structure to support our ambitious growth plans, and acknowledges the significant contribution she has made to the business over the last 3-4 years."

Matrix Private Equity Partners, which invests in UK privately owned companies across a range of industries, has appointed cph co-Founder/MD, Jerry Wright, as an Operating Partner. He will be their specialist adviser in the recruitment/staffing industry, providing due diligence support and expertise in relation to potential investments in the sector.

Commenting on his appointment, Wright said," I have known the CEO of MPEP for a number of years and it's an honour to have been asked by him and his colleagues to join their panel of subject matter experts."

Jerry Wright, co-Founder/MD of specialist RPO firm, cph, successfully completed last Saturday's 'Cotswold Challenge'.

The annual event, organised by LDWA, is designed to test long distance hikers’ fitness and endurance. Wright successfully completed the 25.7 mile course, which includes over 4,550 feet of climbs, in 7 hours 58 minutes.

Commenting afterwards he said, "It was one of the most challenging hikes I've done, with the total climb being equivalent to scaling Ben Nevis. In the end I was very pleased with my time, having lost 10-15 minutes a few miles in due to poor navigating!"

cph, the leading in-sourced direct recruitment solutions provider, has added two new, experienced recruiters to its team this week.

Rebecca Khosrowfar has joined from a niche recruitment agency specializing in mid and senior level positions within the on-line retail space. Alexia Manhusen has joined from a US RPO company, where she has specialized in the technology sector. Following their initial training and induction programme, Rebecca and Alexia will be working on client site delivering direct recruiting solutions.

Commenting on the new appointments, cph's Joint MD, Jerry Wright, said, "We are delighted to have hired an additional two proven and high calibre recruiters to our service delivery team. They will help to support our continued growth as the demand for direct candidate sourcing solutions continues to grow across all the market sectors in which we operate".

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Specialist in-sourced direct recruitment solutions provider, cph, has signed an initial one year in-sourced recruitment services contract with RightNow® (NASDAQ:RNOW), the leading customer experience software solutions company.

Ian Tickle, VP EMEA for RightNow said: "We have ambitious expansion plans and our contract with cph reflects our wish to have a proven and experienced in-house recruitment team that can directly source and attract the best candidates in the market to achieve this growth."

Commenting on behalf of cph, Jerry Wright, Joint MD said: "We are delighted to be partnering with Ian and his team at an exciting stage in their EMEA development. Our brief is to recruit the best talent available in sales, marketing, consulting and technical support to take the company onto the next stage."

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Celerant Consulting, a leading international operational consultancy firm, has signed an in-sourced recruitment services agreement with cph, the specialist RPO provider.

cph are building and managing a direct sourcing model for Celerant, to provide them with an efficient and cost-effective solution for recruiting a substantial number of new management consultants and business development specialists across Europe.

Alison Hodgson, Celerant's EMEA HR Director commented: "The contract with cph follows a review of our recruitment and resourcing activities, which they helped us to carry out. They are now implementing a number of the recommendations, including providing us with a much stronger candidate direct sourcing capability."

"We have always had a strong focus on the consulting and professional services markets and we are confident that our sector knowledge and expertise will enable us to really add value to Celerant’s talent acquisition process at an exciting stage in the firm’s development", said Jerry Wright, cph's Joint MD.

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CPH, the leading in-sourced direct recruitment solutions provider, has added a further three new experienced recruiters to its team.

Graham Major and Michael James, both proven IT recruiters, have joined London based onsite account teams, and Sarah Gascoigne, a very experienced finance & accounting recruiter, has joined the TalkTalk Business account team in the North West.

Commenting on the new appointments, CPH’s Joint MD, Scott Russell, said "We are delighted to have added a further three experienced recruiters to our expanding team, supporting our continued growth in the technology and telecoms sectors."

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cph, the leading in-sourced direct recruitment solutions provider, has added two additional, experienced consultants to its team of onsite recruiters.

Mac McPherson has joined from the OFT, where he was Head of Recruitment – Corporate Services, as the Account Manager for EEF, the manufacturers' organisation.

Lee Holbrook has joined the cph onsite team for a major cloud computing account from AMS, where he was a Principal Resource Specialist.

Commenting on the new appointments, cph's Joint MD, Scott Russell, said "Adding a further two, proven and high calibre recruiters to the team will help to support our continued growth across the professional services and technology sectors."

cph, the specialist in-sourced direct recruiting solutions provider, has announced the launch of a new interim service line, which will provide accredited recruitment managers, recruiters and talent acquisition specialists to those organisations that have built, or are looking to build, an 'in house' direct recruitment capability.

The new 'cph-interim' service line will be led by Chad Horne, who has joined from recruiter, Badenoch & Clark, where he headed up the Procurement, Finance and Policy Division.

Commenting on the launch, Scott Russell, Joint MD of cph said, "Coming out of recession many companies are understandably more cost conscious, and are looking to get better value or less recruitment expenditure. Increasing numbers of corporates and public sector organisations are creating their own direct recruiting capability, but the major challenge for them is in finding experienced corporate recruiters and resourcers. cph can provide fully trained recruitment staff to both bridge the gap, and supplement established 'in house' teams where there are peaks in recruiting demand or the need to provide extended leave or maternity cover . We are already experiencing significant demand for this new service offering".