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• Top 25 UK chartered accountants and business advisers Wilkins Kennedy has appointed Ryan Sarll as assistant audit manager at the firm’s Winchester offices. Sarll joins Wilkins Kennedy from his previous position of accounts senior at Menzies and will be reporting to Simon Kay, senior audit manager at the Winchester offices. He joins six members of staff in the existing audit team and will be responsible for providing and managing detailed audit and business services to a range of businesses across the southern region.
• Close Asset Finance has appointed Paul Lovelock as corporate area sales manager for the south east. Based in Southampton, with significant experience in asset finance, he will report to Chris Lillico, regional sales manager within a new mid corporate sales force. This team is looking to develop business in the larger asset finance markets to complement Close Asset’s existing offerings.
• Helen Alexander , CBE, the current president of the CBI, has been appointed to succeed Sir John Parker as chancellor of the University of Southampton, when Sir John reaches the end of his term in office on July 31. She will be the University’s first female chancellor. Alexander is known for her wide and varied experience in international business. She is currently chair of the Port of London Authority and Incisive Media, and a senior adviser to Bain Capital. She is a trustee of the WWW (World Wide Web) Foundation, and chair of the Business Advisory Council of the Said Business School, Oxford University. She holds non- executive positions at Centrica and Rolls-Royce Group and was previously a trustee of the Tate Gallery and held non-executive positions with Northern Foods and BT. She comes to the end of her term as president of the CBI in June. For 11 years (until 2008), she was chief executive of the Economist Group, and she was also formerly managing director of the Economist Intelligence Unit. Alexander has an MBA from INSEAD and is an honorary fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.
• Portsmouth-based Ferryspeed, the largest independent shipping operator to the Channel Islands, has named Dean Sotnick head of sales and group development. With nearly 30 years’ experience in the UK commercial freight sector, Sotnick joins the company from Condor Logistics, formerly Commodore Express. Working from the Hilsea depot, he will use his wealth of inside industry knowledge to promote the services of Ferryspeed while working alongside its Profreight division.
• Partner Matthew Barrow will be taking over from Rachel Lapworth as head of the real estate group at Lester Aldridge. He is a commercial property lawyer based at the Southampton office, who deals with a broad range of commercial property work and is particularly recognised for his expertise in the property aspects of recoveries and insolvency.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH CENTRAL – JUNE 2011
• Moore Blatch has announced six partner promotions across the firm. The appointments, which take the firm to 25 partners, have been announced across a range of teams including insolvency/ professional negligence, property, private client and clinical negligence. Mark Osgood has been with the firm since 2004 and heads the professional negligence and insolvency teams. Already a partner, he has become an equity partner. Both Marianne Jarvis, a key member of the professional negligence team, and Joyce Bradbeer (above), a wills and estate administration specialist, have been promoted from senior solicitor roles to partners. Mike Wilson, who manages the residential property side of the business becomes a member partner of the firm, having previously been a salaried partner. Current partner Tim Spring, who leads the firm’s clinical negligence team and is head of the Richmond office, has been promoted to member partner. Qualified doctor and lawyer, Anne Cassidy, who also specialises in clinical negligence claims, has been promoted to partner within Moore Blatch Resolve.
• James Harrison is the new general manager at The Master Builder’s Hotel at Buckler’s Hard. Having worked at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel, The House of Lords, Phyllis Court Club and Chester Boyd, he was most recently hotel services manager of The RNLI Lifeboat College in Poole.
• Southampton accountants and business advisers James Cowper has strengthened its corporate tax and technology team with the appointment of senior tax manager Alex Nicholson, who formerly worked for Smith & Williamson. Nicholson brings considerable expertise in acting for owner- managed and technology businesses and regularly advises on matters such as maximising entitlements to capital allowances, research and development tax credits, managing group tax liabilities, transfer pricing and business reorganisations.
• Hampshire-based Raymond Brown Construction (RBC) has appointed Guy Hardacre managing director. Hardacre joins the board with more than 30 years’ experience in the construction industry, having previously worked for Dean & Dyball since 1987 where he held various positions including main board director. A graduate in civil engineering, he has worked across the southern region during his extensive career fulfilling a number of roles including project delivery, estimating and business development as well as general management. His latest appointment will see the sailing enthusiast head the construction arm of the £66-million-turnover Group, working alongside Group MD and former colleague at Dean & Dyball, Kelvin White. RBC operates from its head office in Ringwood.
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