In response to increasing demand for its high-level executive search services, one of the UK’s leading specialist recruitment agencies, which is based in Newport, has employed three new directors to work with leading businesses UK-wide.

Since its launch in March 2015, Acorn’s executive search division has gone from strength to strength, and to date has worked on more than 40 vacancies for CEOs, finance, sales and marketing directors, executive and non-exec board members, placing senior professionals into a number of leading positions across the UK.

Acorn has appointed directors Laura Nicholas, Gareth Edwards and Jan Hughes who all understand the strategic and operational pressures faced by organisational leaders and senior management teams, having previously set up and run their own successful businesses.

Acorn director Dan Langford, who leads the specialist executive search team, said: “We’re encouraged by the success and progress we’ve made to-date, not just in terms of the number of senior placements we have made and are currently working on, but in particular with the quality of the feedback and repeat business we’re attracting from our clients.

“Recruiting at this level is a sophisticated and detailed process; with their backgrounds in running their own businesses, Jan, Laura and Gareth have very quickly gained the confidence of the clients they’ve been working with, which is essential to ensure they can trust us to really get to grips with what they’re looking for when investing a lot of time and faith in a new senior appointment.”

Award-winning Acorn, which has its head office at Celtic Springs Business Park on the west of Newport, is the largest, multi-specialist recruitment agency in Wales and in the top one per cent of agencies UK-wide, placing some 6,500 people into the workplace each week and 1,700 people into permanent positions every year.