Chairman and Chief Executive @ Reed Global was founded in 2009 and primarily consists of the subsidiary companies; Reed Specialist Recruitment, reed.co.uk, Reed in Partnership and Reed Learning. Reed Global employs over 3,200 people, operates in 13 countries and has an annual turnover of more than £1 billion. From June 2009 to Present (6 years 7 months) Chairman @ Reed Specialist Recruitment is the UK's leading specialist recruiter, providing permanent, contract, temporary and outsourced recruitment solutions, and HR consulting, across 30 specialisms. Founded in 1960, Reed Specialist Recruitment now also operates in Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. Reed Specialist Recruitment is family-owned and run and has grown organically, rather than by acquisition, into a company of 3,200 Co-Members in over 428 offices in towns and cities across the world. Our rate of growth has been entirely driven by the hard work and creative energy of our Co-Members, and we are committed to ensuring that people are at the heart of everything we do – and how we do it. From April 2004 to Present (11 years 9 months) Chairman @ In 1995, reed.co.uk became the first recruitment website offered by a recruitment agency in the UK. Since then, reed.co.uk has grown to become the UK's #1 job site, featuring vacancies from over 25,000 recruiters, including private and public sector employers, leading recruitment agencies and consultants from REED's network of 350 offices across the UK, and around the world. reed.co.uk receives 180,000,000 visits per year and in the last year received 50,000,000 job applications. That is over one application every second! From April 2004 to Present (11 years 9 months) Chairman @ We believe that people are our most important asset, and that investing in people is the best way to invest in our business. Continuous improvement and learning are vital to any organisation's well-being, so Reed Learning exists to help organisations to invest in their people in the same way that we invest in ours. Reed Learning is one of the UK's leading providers of training and development services. Part of the Reed family of companies, we have been delivering top quality learning services since 1995. In the last 10 years we’ve trained over 250,000 people, including 20,000 new managers, 12,000 who were scared of doing presentations, and 14,000 who needed to learn to prioritise. From the design of our courses to the choice of trainer on the day and the delegate support afterwards, everything we do is focused on delivering results. From April 2004 to Present (11 years 9 months) Chairman @ Reed in Partnership exists to change people's lives for the better. Since 1998, we've helped over 140,000 people move from benefits into work. Today we are one of the largest employment and skills providers in the UK with programmes operating from our offices across the country. We work with hundreds of organisations, including Jobcentre Plus, the European Social Fund, local authorities and the third sector to provide the best support for our customers. Current national employment and skills programmes include: The Work Programme, The ESF Families Programme, Right Futures and the National Citizen Service. From April 2004 to Present (11 years 9 months) Assistant Producer @ From September 1990 to March 1994 (3 years 7 months)

MBA, Business @ Harvard Business School From 1988 to 1990 MA, Philosophy Politics and Economics @ University of Oxford From 1981 to 1984 James Reed is skilled in: Recruitment Advertising, Recruiting, Executive Search, Graduate Recruitment, RPO, Temporary Staffing, Contract Recruitment, New Business Development, Private Sector, Technical Recruiting, Screening Resumes, Account Management, Sourcing, Talent Acquisition, Performance Management