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Game established three new operating units. Charlotte Knight take MD role for UK retail business, Pablo Crespo MD for the Spanish retail business. Craig Fletcher takes charge of eSports and events unit. CTO Andy Grainger now also has Games Wallet and Dave Perry becomes UK IT director. CFO Benedict Smith has left the business.


Darren Topp who has been with BHS for six years as COO has assumed the role of interim CEO at the newly acquired business, replacing Richard Price who moves to Tesco.


Home Retail Group has announced the appointment of Echo Lu as MD Homebase. Echo took up her new role on 20th


April.


Newly appointed CEO at Morrison’s, David Potts, announced changes at the top of the business. Those going included group customer marketing & digital director Nick Collard and group logistics director Neal Austin. Andy Atkinson has been appointed as interim marketing director.


Feefo strengthened its marketing communications department with the appointment of Alison Couper as its VP of global brand and communications. Couper has previously held senior roles at Expedia and Hotel.com


B&Q CEO Kevin O’Byrne leaves the business in May. Arja Taaveniku joins as chief supply chain officer with Guy Colleau becoming operations director for Kingfisher’s large stores and Steve Willett taking on the title of omnichannel operations director, overseeing Screwfix.


SpinMe has appointed Bernard Shannon as UK business development director and Kelly Groves joins from EC2i as studio & production manager.


Mothercare appointed Michelle Barkess as chief information officer and James Graham as director of retail operations.


Simon Belsham has been named CEO by notonthehighstreet.com


RichRelevance® appointed Mahesh Tyagarajan as chief product officer and John Dickson as VP client services.


Borderfree announced that Jonathan Kapplow has joined as chief marketing officer.


The affiliate arm of Conversant has announced the appointment of Anne Delhon as its new UK Country Manager.


Rowan Gormley has been appointed as chief executive of Majestic Wines as the retailer acquires Naked Wines, the business he co- founded, for £50 million in cash plus £20 million in ordinary shares of Majestic Wines.


The PPRO Group has appointed former Sage Pay CEO Simon Black as its CEO. In his new role Black will oversee the day to day running of the business alongside co-founder Philipp Nieland.


Halfords appointed Jill McDonald as CEO, replacing Matt Davies who is moving to Tesco. McDonald had previously been shortlisted by Halfords for the top role but had lost out to Davies.


Stora Enso has appointed Liisa Nyyssonen as SVP Communications for its paper division and Finnish media. Liisa will take up her new role in June and report to Ulrika Lilja, EVP global communications.


Andrew Findlay has resigned his position as chief financial officer at Halfords and will leave the business in October to take up a similar post at Easyjet.


Dunelm has appointed Andy Harrison, currently chief executive at Whitbread, as its new chairman. He will replace Geoff Cooper when he retires this summer. Harrison has been a non-executive director at Dunelm since last Autumn and is retiring from his role at Whitbread.


Contact centre solutions specialist NewVoiceMedia has appointed Mark Fellowes as its SVP sales development & operations.


Following announcements that he was seeking to cut some 500 head office jobs, new Morrisons CEO David Potts has made two senior redundancies. Tim Bettley who had been drafted in to head up Morrisons Nutmeg clothing division is to leave the business as is Crawford Davidson who held the role of customer director.


House of Fraser has appointed Uday Kotla as chief information officer. He joined the multichannel retailer on 20 April to take responsibility for the development of technology solutions for the business, including its eCommerce store.


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Supply chain solutions provider Relex has recruited Marc Darling as its UK sales manager. He joins from Tibco and has previously worked with JDA, BT Expedite, PCMS Group and the Logic Group.


Former SuperGroup chief financial officer Shaun Wills has scored a victory against HMRC having had his personal bankruptcy ruling annulled. He has since joined Jacques Vert as its CFO.


ASOS has confirmed the appointment of Helen Ashton as its group chief financial officer. Ashton who joins the online retailer in September succeeds Nick Beighton who takes up the position of chief operating officer.


Further restructuring of the N Brown Group operating board has seen buying director Joe Fogwill leave the business. Fogwill joined the multibrand business in 2003 and in 2010 became trading director.


Value store chain Poundstretcher has confirmed that it has appointed Ian York as its new managing director along with Bob Marshall as finance director. In addition it has recruited Carl Sutton as head of marketing, a newly created role


Tesco has appointed a group brand director. Michelle McEttrick joins the beleagured retailer from Barclays where she held the role of chief marketing officer and has also worked with British Airways and BBH.


Cortexica Vision Systems which offers FindSimilar, a visual recognition technology deployed by online fashion brands, has appointed David Soskin as its chairman. Soskin previously held the CEO role at Cheapflights Media.


Justin Stead joins Radley & Co on May 6th. Currently chairman of Sofa.com, a position he will continue to hold, Stead was formerly CEO at Aurum Holdings - a group comprising Mappin & Webb, Goldsmith & Watches of Switzerland.


Expolink which provides contact centre services for multichannel retailers has appointed Nicola Marriott as sales manager.


Jacques Vert Group which operates Eastex, Dash, Windsmooor and Precis Petit in addition to the Jacques Vert brand has announced the appointment of Tim Davies as its chief executive. Davies will replace Teresa Tideman.


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