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• Sue Eilfield has joined The Financial Times newspaper as HR director. She was previously at The Body Shop for six and a half years, most recently as HR manager at head office and prior to that as HR manager, manufacturing. Before The Body Shop she worked for Hampshire Training and Enterprise Council as personnel and training officer. She started her career as a graduate trainee at the Ford Motor Company.
• IPC Magazines is looking for a new HR and services director following the announcement that Arthur Tanner is leaving the company to join book publisher Random House as group HR director. Tanner was with IPC for eight years and was involved in the restructuring of the company last April into five separate companies.
• Electrical retailer Comet has made three appointments to its HR department. Ewan McCulloch has joined as HR controller for retail and call centre, with responsibility for staff in its 266 stores and call centre in Hull. He was previously head of retail personnel at Nationwide Building Society. Paula Smith, HR manager for Scotland and the North of England, has been given the job of managing Comet's payroll and administrative process and staff scheduling review. Hannah Breen, previously retail training advisor has been made HR and development advisor.
• Solicitors Masons has appointed Jacqui Robins as HR manager and Eleanor Hogg as graduate and professional recruitment manager. Robins moves from Allen and Overy where she held HR roles in the business services department and most recently in the litigation, property and tax practice. Hogg has worked in HR at Theodore Goddard, Arthur Andersen and Manches and Co.
• Debbie Howard, HR director at motoring services group Lex Service, has been appointed to the board of directors. It is the first time HR has been represented on the company's board. Howard joined Lex in 1987 and became HR director in 1997 after holding a number of operational and HR management roles.
• Richard Reeves, social affairs editor of The Observer newspaper, will join the Industrial Society on February 15 as director of Futures. He will lead the organisation's research into the future of work. He follows Will Hutton, Observer editor-in-chief, who has been appointed chief executive, also starting in February. Hutton has pledged to turn the Industrial Society into the UK's leading body on work issues.
• Stephen Killinger has been appointed
