2011 Council Elections and AGM
THE REC AGM
The REC is holding its 11th Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 22nd June at 11.00am at REC Offices, 15 Welbeck Street, London W1G 9XT.
The meeting will be chaired by the Chair of the Board, Neil Smith and the business to be conducted will be as follows:
1. To adopt the Minutes of the 10th AGM held on 24th June 2010 (copies of the Minutes will be circulated on chairs)
2. To receive the Report of the Directors and Auditors and the Accounts for the financial year to 31 December 2011 (copies will be available at the meeting)
3. To propose the reappointment of Arram Berlyn Gardner as Auditors and to authorise the directors to fix their remuneration
4. To elect or re-elect up to 6 Corporate Directors and 5 Individual Directors
The 2010 Report and Accounts has now been published and is available to download from the link at the top right hand corner of this page.
RESULTS OF THE 2011 REC COUNCIL ELECTIONS
This year there were 11 Council positions to be elected - 6 Corporate Directors and 5 Individual Directors. The results are as follows:
Newly Elected Corporate Directors
1. Jeff Brooks – with 98 votes
2. Theresa Swann – with 75 votes
3. Neil Smith – with 75 votes
4. Peter Searle – with 70 votes
5. Di Bradbury – with 68 votes
6. Jim Berrisford – with 48 votes
The candidate in 7th position in the Corporate Directors Election received a total of 45 votes.
Newly Elected Individual Directors
The 5 Individual Directors who have been elected to the REC Council are:
1. Richard Toy – with 164 votes
2. Louise McCarthy-Teague – with 160 votes
3. Greg Latham – with 149 votes
4. Jim Berrisford* – with 147 votes
5. Philip Higgins – with 144 votes
The candidate in 6th position in the Individual Director elections received a total of 122 votes.
*Prior to the commencement of the 2011 Council Elections, Jim Berrisford decided to stand as a candidate in both the Corporate and Individual Elections, (which is permissible within the REC constitution). When the final voting tally was counted, Jim was successfully elected in both the Corporate and Individual Elections. Jim has advised that he will be taking up the position of Corporate Director on the Council, which means that the 5th Individual Director position on the REC Council will be filled by the candidate who received the next highest number of votes. In this case, the 5th candidate who has been elected as an Individual Director is Mike Cooper – with 122 votes.
The REC would like to congratulate all those who have been elected and thank all of the candidates who stood for election to the Council this year.
This year, for the first time, Members were given the option to cast their vote either online, by post, or in-person (at the AGM). As a result, over 5% of Individual Members and 8% of Corporate Members voted in the election, which is a remarkable increase over the number of votes cast in previous years. We will continue to offer all Members an opportunity to engage with the Council Elections in future years, to ensure all members’ play an active role in the REC, the IRP and the wider recruitment industry.
If you would like full details of the Election Results and voting numbers please download the Election Results List here.
If you would like to find out more about the nominees and the newly elected Individual Directors, download a copy of the full list of Individual Director candidate biographies here.
