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Infosys to hire students from US and European universities     2005-06, Infosys doubled the percentage of non-Indian employees, hiring more than 25 different nationalities.    In the first phase, Infosys' university-level recruiting programme in the US will bring more than 100 American college graduates to India in August 2006. The new employees hired will develop their     engineering skills at Infosys development centres across India for six months before returning to Infosys offices in the United States. This is the first global recruiting initiative of its size to bring foreign talent to India.    The new hires will participate in a customised education programme for four     months, after which the American trainees will be relocated to development centres throughout India for another two months before returning to various Infosys locations in the United States. Along the same lines, a pilot programme will take place to recruit students from universities in the United Kingdom.        In another initiative, Infosys Technologies is recruiting 30 interns from 17 leading technology and business schools across Europe, as part of its global internship programme, InStep.           Infosys Technologies plans to recruit 300 college graduates from universities in the United States this year and 25 graduates from the United Kingdom in 2007 as part of an ongoing commitment to create a diversified, global workforce. In

KPMG UK names new chief executive     KPMG LLP (UK) has named Colin Cook as its new chief executive officer. He will succeed John Griffith-Jones who becomes KPMG's UK senior partner on 1 October, 2006.        Cook has wide experience of the capital markets, transactions and business and financial advisory work, both in the UK and globally. He has been involved in     many of the largest public deals over the last 15 years, including the merger of AstraZeneca and the Vodafone-Mannesmann and RBS-NatWest takeovers.    He qualified as a     chartered accountant in 1979 and joined KPMG in 1980, becoming a partner in 1990. He was European head of KPMG's Transaction Services practice from 1998 until 2004, when he was     appointed CEO of KPMG's UK Tax and People Services practice.

James Wood returns to MWN as associate director     James Wood has returned to Michael Warwick Nicholls, a niche recruitment consultancy, as associate director within its management consultancy (recruitment) division.        After a successful three-year stint with the firm, Wood took a sabbatical in 2005, spending six months in Latin America, before completing a 'round the world' trip through     America, New Zealand, Australia and S.E. Asia.    In his new role, Wood has specific responsibilities: to assist MWN's recruiters source more quality candidates, grow the     firm’s client portfolio, and to grow the MWN brand. He originally joined MWN in 2002, where he recruited within 'Industry and Commerce' before helping to build up the existing     management consultancy division.

BearingPoint makes key UK and German appointments     BearingPoint has appointed Stephen Kingsley as lead for the firm's London-based     financial services practice. At the same time, BearingPoint is further boosting its     wider Financial Services practice in EMEA with the appointment of Christoph Petznik as     managing director to BearingPoint Germany.

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