{"id":15105,"date":"2026-09-02T09:36:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=15105"},"modified":"2026-09-02T09:36:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:36:58","slug":"shields-heads-up-new-executive-search-company-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=15105","title":{"rendered":"Shields heads up new executive search company \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>Debbie Shields: new business<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Three recruitment sector veterans have joined forces to launch an executive search firm in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Debbie Shields, previously a director at Aspen People, has set up Aviia as chief executive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Taylor Hopkinson founder Tom Hopkinson is an investor, and Craig Paterson, who was part of Melville Craig, will chair the firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Taylor Hopkinson was acquired by Brunel and Melville Craig by TMP Worldwide, a Nasdaq-listed company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Aviia, based in the Centrum building in Queen Street, is building AI-driven research and workflow tools to help smooth the recruitment process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Shields has enjoyed a long search career and has also held board and trustee roles with organisations such as the Scottish Refugee Council and SAY Women. She will extend her search for candidates across the commercial and third sectors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Hopkinson said: \u201cI\u2019ve backed Debbie because I know exactly what she\u2019s capable of, and because Aviia is built the way I believe search should be built today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #Shields #heads #executive #search #company #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debbie Shields: new business Three recruitment sector veterans have joined forces to launch an executive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[272,865,306,20600,2830,1652,5769,20601],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}