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“One of Doyle Clayton’s best qualities is their ability to translate what can sometimes be conflicting and confusing legislation into layman’s terms, thus enabling the business to take and make decisions that are in the best interests of all concerned.”
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• Chartered accountants Haines Watts welcomes Rob Churchward and Debbie Curtis to its High Wycombe office to offer clients new opportunities in finance and recruitment. Churchward has joined forces with Haines Watts and brings his business, The Finance Function, and team into HW Finance Function, where he is manager. The firm offers outsourced accounting solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Churchward holds ACIS and ACMA qualifications, and has over 26 years of experience. Debbie Curtis joins HW Recruitment as a senior consultant, having worked in a number of recruitment businesses in the Thames Valley. Curtis brings 25 years of experience to her role, across all industries, and has a huge amount of expertise in providing recruitment solutions to both SMEs and blue chip organisations.
• Barclays Corporate has appointed Gary Chugg as the new corporate director for the Reading and Basingstoke areas. He will be responsible for heading up the Barclays Corporate medium business team of 20 based at the firm’s offices at Apex Plaza, Reading. Chugg brings a wealth of corporate banking experience having worked in the industry more than 25 years focusing
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primarily in the corporate banking market, and returns to Reading and Basingstoke having successfully led the team previously for two years, before undertaking a similar and successful role for Barclays Corporate in the Dorset and Solent area. Barclays Corporate is responsible for a portfolio of customers with a turnover of £5 million+ and is now more closely aligned to Barclays Capital, the investment banking arm, and Barclays Wealth, the wealth management business of Barclays Group. Welcoming Chugg’s new appointment managing director, Gavin Isle, Barclays Corporate, for southern region said: “Expanding our client footprint is a top priority, and is part of the bank’s strategy to increase our market share and we welcome Gary on board, who has a wealth of knowledge and experience in this region to help us achieve that goal.”
• The four-star Macdonald Berystede Hotel & Spa near Ascot has a new management team in place with the appointment of Fiona King (below) as general manager, Jo Bennett as sales manager and John Machin as head chef. King returns to the Macdonald Hotels & Resorts group after a two year gap, during which time she worked for hotel chain Mercure as regional general manager overseeing five hotels in the south west. Previously she was employed as general manager at several prestigious Macdonald properties including the Castle Hotel in Windsor and the Queen’s Hotel in Cheltenham. Bennett joined the Macdonald
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Berystede in February after four years working as sales manager for Principal Hayley, the hotels and conference venues group, firstly at the Beaumont Estate and more recently at The Oakley Court, both located in Windsor. Between 1999 and 2007 she undertook various roles at the Marriott Breadsall Priory Hotel & Country Club in Derbyshire. Machin has moved to the Berystede from the Macdonald Frimley Hall Hotel & Spa near Camberley, where he worked with a team of 10 responsible for the hotel’s two AA Rosette fine dining restaurant and catering for events in the conference and banqueting suites. Machin has brought his distinctive British modern style of cuisine to the Berystede and has ambitious plans to increase the hotel’s restaurant rating from one to two AA Rosettes.
• Isabel Davies , one of the UK’s and Europe’s leading patent and trademark lawyers has joined the Boyes Turner’s Commercial & Technology group from CMS Cameron McKenna where she was senior partner in its IP team and chairman of its Technology, Media and Telecoms sector group. The Legal 500 recently commented that Davies is “without doubt, one of Europe’s leading contentious IP specialists” and Legal Media’s Best of the Best Experts Guide ranked Davies as one of the world’s 25 pre- eminent IP lawyers. Davies advises on both contentious and transactional issues as well as strategic issues in managing patent, trademark and design portfolios and IP Audit. Her client base stretches across technology, media and telecoms, consumer products and life sciences as well as other sectors including hotels and leisure. She will work alongside Boyes Turner’s highly regarded head of IP, partner Sarah Hadland and partners Mark Blunden, who leads Boyes Turner’s Commercial & Technology group and Bill Gornall-King. Recent additions to Boyes Turner’s IP team include Holly Strube and Selena Brent.
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