Penna Expands With New Appointments

February 17, 2015 – Penna Plc has announced several new appointments to its executive interim and search practice. Marcus Lorenzo becomes the firm's new head of practice for the retail and consumer sectors. Mr. Lorenzo has 12 years’ experience in conducting executive search and developing talent management programs both in the U.K. and internationally for small and large businesses; he specializes in consumer, retail, leisure and media. Mr. Lorenzo previously was an associate partner at Green Park Interim & Executive Search and before that was with Warren Partners. Karen Camilleri joins Penna as head of the firm's transport and infrastructure executive interim practice. Her experience spans the public and private sectors; in particular rail with a focus on placing senior managers up to and including board level. Ms. Camilleri was previously with Veredus Executive Search, Interim Management and Assessment & Development. Matthew King has been named as a senior consultant within the firm's construction, engineering and manufacturing space. Having started his recruitment career in 2003 with Michael Page and then running an engineering recruitment business in Australia for eight years, Mr. King will support organizations going through large scale change & transformation and partnering with them through interim management solutions. Andrew Cholerton joins the firm to take responsibility for growing Penna’s infrastructure and transportation practice while building upon his existing client network. Mr. Cholerton has experience recruiting at board and senior manager levels across a variety of business functions. Most recently he was a partner with Transearch International U.K. Catherine Kift has been appointed as a sector leader to further develop Penna’s local government, not-for-profit and education market sectors. Ms. Kift is a specialist recruiter and an expert in senior interim recruitment within local government and the not-for-profit sector. She most recently served as director, interim management at Veredus U.K. Penna is a provider of executive search and interim management across the public and private sectors, both in the U.K. and internationally.