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• Mark Johns (above) has been elected managing partner of Princecroft Willis (PcW), the Dorset and New Forest independent chartered accountants and business advisers. He succeeds Mark Aitchison who has been appointed group finance director of the Colten Group. Johns, who is both a chartered accountant and chartered certified accountant, joined PcW 12 years ago and became a partner in 2000. In 2009 he was appointed operations partner with specific responsibility for HR and training. Johns has a wide-ranging client portfolio and specialises in dealing with family and owner-managed businesses, typically in the £1- 35 million turnover range.
• Portsmouth-based Lead Forensics, a provider of online B2B lead generation technology, has bolstered its award-winning team with the appointment of Tony Dark as sales director. Dark, brings to the role more than 16 years’ experience, most recently with CORGI Group and
ThomsonLocal.com. He joins following a period of unprecedented growth, which resulted in the company’s recent relocation to new offices.
• Whiteley-based Chemring Marine, part of the Chemring Group, has appointed a new marketing coordinator, Victoria Jones. A former sales administrator, Jones has being increasingly active in providing marketing support for distributors and customers.
• Following a nationally- competitive recruitment process, the University of Southampton has appointed Malcolm Ace as its new chief operating officer. Ace will have responsibility for the strategic development and executive management of the University’s resources, business and infrastructure functions, ensuring they enable world- class research, education and enterprise. He was previously the director of finance at the University and appointed chief financial officer in 2010, taking on expanded operational and strategic responsibilities to include estates and IT.
• Deep South Media, the south coast regional PR agency and outsourced press office, has promoted two staff to directors – Ron Wain (above left), who was a business editor and deputy news editor at the Southern Daily Echo, and Andrew Diprose (above right) an ex-business editor at the Bournemouth Daily Echo and former PR head for Newsquest, Britain’s second-largest newspaper publishing group. They joined Deep South in 2006 and 2005 respectively. Their new responsibilities, including business development and operations, are in addition to their existing work for some of the region’s highest-profile companies. Deep South was launched in 1998 by Gareth Weekes, former editor of the Bournemouth Daily Echo and Salisbury Journal. It now employs 10, including a five-strong PR team comprised entirely of former regional daily newspaper journalists.
• Aurigny’s longest-serving member of staff has celebrated 40 years with the company. Maurice Wyatt, station manager in Southampton, joined the fledgling airline in 1971 after working as an air traffic control assistant. Aurigny’s managing director, Malcolm Hart said he had been the backbone of the Southampton operation for many years and his contribution to its success had been immense.
• Jennifer Roberts, who recently qualified as a solicitor after training with Paris Smith, has joined the firm’s property dispute resolution team. Roberts specialises in a range of land law related actions, including property possession claims, landlord and tenant disputes and professional negligence claims in both the residential and commercial property sectors.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH CENTRAL – MAY 2011
• Vail Williams has expanded its Portsmouth-based agency team with the addition of Leanne Channon. She will be working along the M27 corridor dealing with office and industrial premises. Prior to joining, Channon spent nine years at Hughes Ellard within the business space agency team, handling the office, industrial and retail sectors along the Solent corridor. She holds a Diploma in Surveying Practice, having undertaken a distance learning course through The College of Estate Management.
• A former member of the management team for Portsmouth’s Tiger Tiger at Gunwharf Quays, Nathan Quick, has made a surprise return to the city in order to take charge of the prestigious venue. Quick did his management training there a few years ago, before moving to Birmingham where he undertook his first general manager role prior to working in London for a year. Quick, who knows the venue and local community, will be unveiling a series of exciting plans during the year ahead.
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