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People First strategic partnerships PEOPLE FIRST, created by MHR International, have recently announced partnerships with: PayAsia (a provider of multi-country payroll and human resource (HR) outsourcing solutions); Burcamp Advisory Group (a software provider for businesses and custom application development and training for clients); and MPAY (a provider of human capital management solutions to their entrepreneurial clients and small to medium size business partners across America). While People’s First’s partnership with PayAsia offers businesses in Asia Pacific and Europe access to world-class human resources (HR) and payroll solutions, joining forces with US-based Burcamp Advisory Group gives
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businesses access to a product that offers solutions to the issues of employee engagement, productivity and wellbeing. The alliance with MPAY will enable the two companies to offer solutions to remove the burden of day-to-day administration and paperwork but will help businesses connect employees in a social and collaborative way to aid communication and engagement. Iain Moffat, chief global officer at People First, and Mark Samlal, managing director at PayAsia, said in a joint statement: “This new partnership brings together our combined industry experience and expertise to offer businesses efficient, cost effective and industry- leading solutions to help them manage their people and payroll. Both companies have ambitious growth plans and working together will help us to achieve them.” Commenting on the other partnerships, Iain said: “Burcamp only offers the best systems and we are pleased that People First will be joining their portfolio of products [and] MPAY offers a great payroll and benefits solution, which when combined with People First, delivers an immensely strong proposition for the North American market.” Robert Burdwell, founder of Burcamp Advisory Group, added: “Burcamp is excited to partner with People First to add more services for our clients especially with human resources.” Geoffrey Duke, CEO of MPAY, commented: “We are excited to help People First launch their service offering to the North American market.”
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BRENDAMORRIS JOINS SD WORX THE PAYROLL and HR services provider SD Worx is pleased to announce that Brenda Morris has joined the company as vice president UK and Ireland, as well as becoming a member of the executive committee. Brenda brings broad experience,
and with her wealth of experience we are excited to implement the new insight she brings to the UK. The UK is a leading market when it comes to HR and payroll and is home to some of the world’s biggest companies, so the opportunity for growth in this market is considerable. I’m confident that Brenda is the right person to help SD Worx increase our market share, not just in the UK, but also internationally.” Brenda commented: “I look forward to becoming part of a team that builds a truly international company. I plan to meet a good representation of our customer base, not only the top ten, but also customers who recently decided to work with us or customers in the midmarket, which is a key segment for us in the UK. “SD Worx has a great vision and knows exactly where it’s going. Together with the colleagues in UK and Ireland, we will contribute to that. Success comes when you have a growing base of delighted customers. The way we achieve this is with highly engaged colleagues and a portfolio of very attractive, innovative and robust products and services. By focusing on continuous engagement with our existing customers and adding a full HR suite for our payroll offering, SD Worx has an even brighter future ahead.”
spanning almost thirty years across human capital management and international software and services companies, including the likes of Unisys and Kronos. Her background in the industry is well-aligned with SD Worx’s focus on customer-centricity, which she plans to continue embedding and elevating within the business. She sees business intelligence, robotics and the desire for more self-service solutions as key trends for SD Worx to continue to develop, to further support the company’s international growth strategy. Steven Van Hoorebeke, chief executive officer for SD Worx Group, said: “Brenda is a welcome addition to the SD Worx teams
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Issue 47 | February 2019
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