A registered community trademark attorney, prior to joining Cruickshanks, Richard successfully built and ran business units for leading global professional services providers, Hays Plc and Reed Plc.

Enterprise IT management software leader CA has announced the appointment of Mark McCrystal as senior consultant, technology services. He will be responsible for the presales, architecture and delivery of a number of CA's capability solutions in the areas of Network and Data Centre Optimisation and Business Service Management. Mark joins CA from Fujitsu Services, where he was a technology consultant for eight years.

He has also held consultancypositions with Motorola in Cork and Unisys in the UK.