Meet the Team
Alena Salakhova
Alena began her recruitment career with Michael Page in 2009, initially based in Russia before spending time in the USA. After returning to Russia with Adecco she relocated to Singapore as Regional Director for Hudson, and moved to her current with SThree, three years later. Alena is also the regional lead for SThree’s Diversity & Inclusion committee.
Externally, in partnership with SMU Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship IEE, Alena has mentored aspiring recruitment entrepreneurs. She also collaborates and partners with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), sharing insights on Singapore’s talent landscape along with changing perceptions towards contract empoloyment. Alena is now in her 6th year working in Asia, and became Chair of APSCo Asia in 2020. SThree were founder members of APSCo Asia in 2013.
Stuart Feest
Stuart works with APSCo’s largest members and their executive teams to help them leverage the maximum benefit from the broad spectrum of APSCo services.
Stuart brings 22 years' of UK and international recruitment experience within the technology and engineering sectors. Prior to his appointment as Enterprise Director in 2019 Stuart was twice elected onto APSCo’s Representative Committee. The majority of Stuart’s career was spent with Gattaca Plc where he was a Managing Director. More recently Stuart was a main board director with an international quality management services organisation within Automotive and Aerospace
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- https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartfeest/
Tania Bowers
Tania is the Global Public Policy Director. She is a solicitor who has worked exclusively in the professional staffing sector since 1999, joining APSCo in 2016.
As Global Public Policy Director Tania represents our members’ interests in meetings and communications with Government departments, ministers, MPs and other interested stakeholders. She is responsible for APSCo’s public affairs activity on a global basis representing APSCo members’ views to governments and contributing to the debate on the future of the global professional labour market.
Bazgha Sultana
Baz is an advocate for innovation and has over 8 years’ experience in project management, event management, building long-lasting strategic partnership and customer services roles. She has also achieved several awards such as “The British Citizen Award”, “Honorary Award” and “Excellence in Customer Engagement Award” for delivering commendable customer services and high-quality Virtual and face-to-face events.
At APSCo, Baz will be supporting the development, delivery of, and member engagement with, global and international services and events. In her previous role as Engagement and Events Manager, she has supported the development of a five-year customer strategy and grew company’s annual events programme substantially; incorporating international entertainment, reaching record numbers of engagement, and collaborating with key organisations to maximise value for money and reach.
Rina Durban
Rina has been part of the APSCo team for over a decade, working in a number of different member-facing roles and is now responsible for introducing new members to APSCo both in the UK and internationally.
Rina is an enthusiastic champion of APSCo, committed to promoting its aims and objectives and passionate about growing its membership. She has a detailed knowledge of APSCo products and services and how they can add tangible value to recruitment businesses of all sizes.
Before joining APSCo, Rina gained valuable experience working for leading trade bodies in other sectors.
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- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rinadurbanapsco/