SHL APPOINTS CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER

PRINCETON, N.J. (June 17, 2008) - SHL, a world-leading provider of objective employment assessment and development solutions, has appointed David Leigh as Chief Commercial Officer. In this capacity, Leigh will be responsible for all aspects of the company’s ambitious expansion plans.

 

Leigh joins SHL from Steria, a pan-European IT and business process outsourcing company where he was Group BPO Director and a member of the executive committee. Prior to this, Leigh was the Group Business Development and Commercial Director at Xansa plc, Senior Vice-President at ipValue management Inc, a company owned by Goldman Sachs and General Atlantic partners, and a consultant at McKinsey & Company.

 

“This is an exciting time to join SHL, a growing company with enormous global potential and with 30 years’ worth of assets that help to transform the workplace,” said Leigh.

 

“Through its world-class talent management solutions, SHL engages with companies in every aspect of the employee life cycle.  Companies say that people are their biggest assets. If that’s the case then the cost of assessing those assets is minimal compared to the increased productivity and effectiveness which a company will experience if it has the right person in the right job,” he added.

 

SHL Group CEO, John Bateson, added, “David joins at a pivotal time in SHL’s history. De-listing has put us in charge of our own destiny and we have plans to double the size of the company in the next two years. With his experience in building and growing companies, David will be responsible for supporting SHL’s expansion into new territories and developing existing markets.”

 

“Talent management is no longer an HR but a CEO issue and SHL is poised with over 30 years of experience and scientifically robust and secure tools to help companies recruit and keep the very best talent,” he concluded.

 

SHL is a world-leading provider of objective employment assessment and development solutions. The company supports organizations in the selection, recruitment, promotion, succession planning and development of talented people at all levels and across all sectors. Operating in 40 countries and more than 30 languages, the SHL Group devises innovative approaches to help organizations increase productivity and gain competitive advantage through the more effective use of their human capital. SHL has over 15,500 organizations as clients, including many of the Global and Times Top 1000, and is recognized as the foremost provider of objective assessment products in the world. For more information, please visit www.shl.com.