Movers and shakers

Geoffrey Bowes has retired as executive chairman of The Boardroom Practice Limited. Geoffrey was the foundation chairman of the company, which was incorporated in 2003.

Kelly Services, New Zealand's leading large recruitment agency, has just announced the appointment of new national sales manager - Andrew Huxford. Huxford joins the team at Kelly Services from Napier-based Star Food Service Ltd, where he was the general manager.

REALTECH Ltd has appointed Kok Wai Choo (Choo) as a SAP technology architect. Choo formerly worked for SAP practices, Ozone and Oxygen and prior to that HP Singapore in the Shared Services Division.

Auckland-based search marketing agency SureFire Search has appointed Jeremy Templer to the newly created position of client services director. A returning Kiwi expat, who was most recently director of search marketing at global interactive services company Acxiom's San Francisco Bay Area offices, Templer will oversee SureFire Search account management and business development.

Online media company MSN New Zealand has appointed Sheryl Blythen as New Zealand editor. Blythen was formerly ACP's digital editor in chief.

Mike Johnston has been appointed to the newly created position of country manager at Canon New Zealand. He was previously the company's head of customer services.

FCm Travel Solutions has appointed Mark O'Shaughnessy to the position of operations leader for the Wellington and Christchurch regions. O'Shaughnessy joined the Flight Centre group more than 10 years ago as an international travel consultant and most recently worked within the retail side of the business as an area leader for Auckland's central business district.

The National Foundation for the Deaf (NFD) has appointed Chris Peters in a newly created role of advocacy project manager. He has come from a background in journalism, having worked with the NZ Press Association and as a foreign correspondent. Prior to joining the NFD Chris handled public affairs for Hearing Association of New Zealand.


Datamine Limited has appointed Sonya Crosby to the newly created position of managing director. She has spent the last two years managing the Mail Marketing Service business unit of New Zealand Post and will be joining the Datamine team in May.

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