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• Andy Swift has been appointed as the new director of NatWest Commercial Banking for Southampton. He will lead a team of 30 experienced, locally-based staff who will provide a tailored service to businesses with a turnover of between £2 million and £25m in an area that covers Southampton and the surrounding area, including Winchester. Swift has worked for NatWest for 31 years and brings a wealth of experience to the role, the majority of it working with business clients.
• Specialist healthcare lawyer Guy Morgan has joined Lester Aldridge as a partner. Recognised in particular for his expertise in property healthcare work, he has acted for numerous NHS organisations and is experienced in advising public sector organisations on their estates’ strategies, reorganisation issues and in regeneration projects. Morgan has also represented a wide variety of other property clients over the past 14 years, including developers, banks, pension funds, major plcs, charities and high-net-worth individuals.
• A top London and west country chef, Trevor Parsons, has been appointed head chef at The Village Hotel in Bournemouth. Since commencing his career in 1985, Parsons’ extensive experience has seen him work in a variety of high- class establishments for both well-known chains and individual boutique hotels and restaurants, including Q Hotels, Ramada, Bridgewood Manor, Harvey’s and local Sandbanks restaurant Harriet’s.
• The former chief executive of Poole Hospital has become chairman of the Bournemouth University (BU) board. Sue Sutherland succeeds Alan Frost, who has retired after five years. Sutherland has been a member of the BU board since 2006 and is well-known for her leadership of the Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, where she improved patient satisfaction, hospital efficiency and financial performance. She is looking forward to working closely with the University community.
• Grant Thornton has supported four young accountants by employing them under its graduate and school leaver programmes. The firm, which places strong emphasis on finding and developing new talent, has begun 2011 with the addition of university graduates Nicholas Breadner (above centre), Katie Green (above right) and Emma Chamberlain, and Hannah Whitton (above left), who has recently finished college. The appointments come after Grant Thornton took on 20 new members of staff in 2010, ranging from internship to management level. Whitton, Green and Chamberlain will join the assurance team whilst Breadner will work in the tax department.
• Ruth Harding has joined Paris Smith’s planning consultancy. With over 20 years in the public sector, working in the Midlands, Oxfordshire and latterly Hampshire, her wealth of knowledge and experience covers all aspects of rural and urban planning, and in recent years she has also developed a particular interest in the healthcare sector as well as major sports developments. With Harding now on board the firm’s multi-disciplinary planning team includes two chartered planning consultants (both members of the Royal Town Planning Institute), and advises on all aspects of planning.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH CENTRAL – APRIL 2011
• Holloway Iliffe & Mitchell has recruited Craig Powell as associate director to expand its commercial property consultancy team. Powell will work closely with directors Derek and Tom Holloway and Stuart Mitchell to assist existing agency, valuation and management clients and promote business development in the M27, M3, A3M and A27 corridors. He joins from Chesterton Humberts, Southampton, where he gained 12 years’ experience of dealing with agency, valuation and lease advice.
• Hampshire design and marketing agency White Communications Group (WCG) has appointed Nelly Lear as account manager and Simon Ridley as interactive developer. Lear joins the team as the company re-brands to showcase its core skills in creative design, interactive online communications and healthcare marketing. Ridley’s arrival will further strengthen the white interactive division. With considerable programming knowledge, he will develop the range of online marketing solutions for the company.
• Professional services firm KPMG has appointed Simon Hammerschmidt to head its performance and technology practice in the south. The appointment will see Hammerschmidt lead a team of consultants across KPMG’s Southampton, Bristol, Cardiff, Plymouth and Reading offices, advising clients on complex business issues including cost optimisation, financial management and improving technology systems. He formerly worked for Deloitte, where he spent six years as group sales director of its consulting alliances practice.
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