Executives Online Signs First Overseas Franchise Deal

Fast track recruitment agency, Executives Online, has signed up its first overseas franchisee as part of its strategy to drive expansion internationally and meet growing demand for its services. Steve Rattray is to head up Executives Online Australia, with headquarters in Sydney. Rattray, a native Australian, plans to build a successful recruitment business, but also to license the database to HR consultancies, training companies and other partners who will use it as a platform to support their own recruitment operations. With a background in sales & business development management he has an extremely solid foundation of relevant experience on which to build an online recruitment business. For the past twenty years he has been a contract manager, involved in a variety of industry sectors including information & sports technologies, e systems marketing, digital asset management, virtual office solutions and team development. Many of these roles involved him in change and turnaround programmes, which have given him an invaluable insight into the needs of his clients, many of which seek interim managers to manage such situations. He has also gained the inside track on the burgeoning interim management sector in Australia through his work as interim CEO for Super Alloy Technologies. Other prestigious roles include a two year contract as Executive Director, CEO for the ‘Spirit of Australia,' America's Cup. \Cont'd� Stephen Rattray Page 2 Executives Online Signs First Overseas Franchise Deal \page 2 Managing Director of Executives Online, Norrie Johnston says: ‘We are delighted to welcome Steve Rattray aboard and to be making the services of Executives Online available to employers and executives on the other side of the globe. The demand for fast-track recruitment is the same the world over. Being an online business means we can spread our net as wide as the worldwide web but because we combine the latest technology with the personal services of a traditional recruitment agency, we want to have someone on the ground, like Steve, with whom clients can build up a real relationship.' Steve Rattray comments: ‘I am excited by the challenge and possibilities of taking a hugely successful brand and innovative business model like Executives Online and introducing it to a new market.' The announcement of the overseas franchisee comes hot on the heels of the signing of Executive Online's first UK franchise. ‘It is our strategy to use franchise opportunities to drive expansion abroad and in the UK,' concludes Norrie Johnston. ‘The next step is to employ a Franchise Director which we hope to announce very soon.' ***ENDS*** About Executives Online: Executives Online offers a fast track, executive resourcing service and is the UK's fastest growing interim provider. For further information visit: www.executivesonline.co.uk For further media information contact: Kate Parker Louise Findlay-Wilson [email protected] [email protected] Tel: 01993 823011 Tel: 01993 823011

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