Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+

Personnel Today

Register
Log in
Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+

Personnel Today

Going global

by Personnel Today 1 Nov 2002
by Personnel Today 1 Nov 2002

We welcome your letters, requests to other readers for research assistance
and announcements of people moves relating to HR executives with international
responsibilities. E-mail details to: [email protected]
or write to globalhr, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5AS, UK.
People

People

Scott A Crum

Has been appointed director of
corporate HR at ITT Industries. In his new role, Crum will spearhead HR
strategy and policy for ITT, a global multi-industry company with more than
35,000 employees, half of whom are based outside the US. Crum previously worked
at Motorola. He replaces Jim Fowler, who is retiring at the end of the year.

Barbara Gaffney

Has joined US-based Tektronix as vice-president of HR. She has worked in a
variety of HR management roles, including two different start-up companies.
Tektronix, headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, US is a test, measurement and
monitoring company providing measurement solutions to the communications,
computer and semiconductor industries worldwide.

Cheryl Hannon

Has been appointed vice-president of HR at US-based iManage, a leading
provider of collaborative content management software for global enterprises.
With more than 20 years of domestic and international HR experience, Hannon
will focus on maintaining a high level of performance across the iManage
workforce. iManage is headquartered in Foster City, California, US.

Peter Lunn

Is the new head of HR at BNFL Environmental Services, the business group
engaged in decommissioning and remediation. In his new role he will have
responsibility for all aspects of the HR function in the UK and across
continental Europe. BNFL employs more than 1,200 staff and Lunn has also been
charged with refining and developing HR policy, as well as delivering
improvements in flexible working.

Ursula Rhode

Has been promoted to vice-president of global services at US-based Lexington
Services, part of MyTravel Group. Rhode previously held the position of
vice-president member services, which she has held since 2001. Lexington
Services is the largest provider of reservations and centrally hosted
technology services to hotels in North America and second largest in the world.
Servicing nearly 4,000 hotels, it encompasses 28 brands in 81 countries
worldwide.

Karen Sutherland

Is currently HR manager with Conoco UK, will transfer to Houston, Texas to
become manager, Global Leadership Development of ConocoPhillips. The two major oil
and gas companies, Conoco and Phillips Petroleum Company have just completed
their merger. Sutherland will be replaced by Rosie Mackenzie.

Clive Grundy

Is HR director of Compass Group, and has been appointed to the board as an
executive director. Grundy joined Compass in 1985 initially as HR director for
the UK division, and subsequently held senior positions in operations and other
functions. He took on group-wide responsibility for HR as a member of the
executive management team in 1996.

"While we have been working to many strategic objectives
and initiatives and have seen success, we are aware our work is not complete.
We work not as the HR function carrying out these things, but our approach is
to empower all of our managers. HR activity runs right across the whole company.

"Compass has more than 360,000 employees across several
countries with pretty much every type of person you could come across, and our
approach is to look after these people in the best way we can. Our employees
are central to the way we run our business, to try and make us an employer of
choice."

Compass is the world’s largest food-service company with annual
foodservice revenues in excess of £10bn.

Sign up to our weekly round-up of HR news and guidance

Receive the Personnel Today Direct e-newsletter every Wednesday

OptOut
This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Mark J Williams

Has joined DRSTechnologies as senior
vice-president of HR at its Parsippany, New Jersey, US headquarters. Williams
will focus on organisational and leadership development, as well as strategic
HR initiatives. DRS Technologies provides products and services to government
and commercial customers worldwide.

Personnel Today

Personnel Today articles are written by an expert team of award-winning journalists who have been covering HR and L&D for many years. Some of our content is attributed to "Personnel Today" for a number of reasons, including: when numerous authors are associated with writing or editing a piece; or when the author is unknown (particularly for older articles).

previous post
Ambition gets the better of UK workforce
next post
Survey reveals depth of nursing crisis

You may also like

Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders receive 400% pay rise

4 Jul 2025

FCA to extend misconduct rules beyond banks

2 Jul 2025

‘Decisive action’ needed to boost workers’ pensions

2 Jul 2025

Business leaders’ drop in confidence impacts headcount

2 Jul 2025

Why we need to rethink soft skills in...

1 Jul 2025

Five misconceptions about hiring refugees

20 Jun 2025

Forward features list 2025 – submitting content to...

23 Nov 2024

Features list 2021 – submitting content to Personnel...

1 Sep 2020

Large firms have no plans to bring all...

26 Aug 2020

A typical work-from-home lunch: crisps

24 Aug 2020

  • Empowering working parents and productivity during the summer holidays SPONSORED | Businesses play a...Read more
  • AI is here. Your workforce should be ready. SPONSORED | From content creation...Read more

Personnel Today Jobs
 

Search Jobs

PERSONNEL TODAY

About us
Contact us
Browse all HR topics
Email newsletters
Content feeds
Cookies policy
Privacy policy
Terms and conditions

JOBS

Personnel Today Jobs
Post a job
Why advertise with us?

EVENTS & PRODUCTS

The Personnel Today Awards
The RAD Awards
Employee Benefits
Forum for Expatriate Management
OHW+
Whatmedia

ADVERTISING & PR

Advertising opportunities
Features list 2025

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Linkedin


© 2011 - 2025 DVV Media International Ltd

Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise
  • OHW+