APSCo founder and Global CEO Ann Swain has more than 30 years’ recruitment experience, which includes time as managing director of Learning Curve and UK sales director at Computer People before establishing APSCo in 1999. APSCo is an international trade body representing the professional recruitment sector with operations in the UK, Germany, Singapore and Australia. In 2014, Swain joined the Executive Committee of Women in Recruitment. More recently, she was invited to chair the European team in the popular “Top Recruiter” docuseries. Swain is also co-author of the best-selling Professional Recruiter’s Handbook. Her articles appear regularly in the national and recruitment media, and she is a popular platform speaker at conferences in the UK and across the world.