Colleague Software appoints David Kingston to drive UK new business sales

Colleague, the leading recruitment software provider, has appointed David Kingston to its UK sales team with particular responsibility for driving new business in the white collar recruitment and executive search sectors.

David, a well known figure in the recruitment software industry, began his career as a recruitment consultant and gained valuable insight into what recruiters really want from their software and sytems. He later moved into the technology side of the industry working with Bond International Software and most recently Trisys Software Solutions.

Colleague Software has been providing fully integrated front and back office data management systems to the recruitment industry since 1994 and has an extensive list of UK and foreign clients including InterQuest, FDM, Networkers MSB and Square One Resources.

On joining Colleague David Kingston said: “I’m really looking forward to working with Will Minns and the team. Colleague Software has an amazingly high client retention rate which is the envy of the recruitment software industry. It’s a very strong indicator of the quality of the product and the service Colleague provides and it’s going to be a pleasure introducing it to new clients.”

Will Minns, Managing Director of Colleague, said: “We’re delighted to welcome David to the Colleague team. He has a great deal of experience working with recruiters in the white collar and executive search sectors which are the areas where Colleague’s software really excels. We’re working on some exciting new product developments for this year and with David on board we’re looking forward to introducing even more new clients to the benefits of Colleague software.”