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• A new manager is at the helm at the Henley-on-Thames office of Davis Tate. James Donigan MNAEA, joins the well-established team in Henley, a ‘coming home’, as he has previously lived in Middle Assendon and Sonning Common, attending local schools including Trinity Primary, Gillotts and Shiplake College for his A levels. Donigan began his career in estate agency in 2005. Working through the ranks, he was promoted to office manager in Headington, after having previously opened a new office in East Oxford.
• Accountants and business advisers James Cowper has strengthened its corporate finance team with the appointment of Graham Carr as head of transaction services. Carr joins James Cowper following a career with a big four accountancy firm, where he advised private equity houses, corporates and banks on acquisitions, disposals and financing. In his new role he will build on the considerable successes of James Cowper’s corporate finance team, which carries out a broad range of assignments including due diligence for banks and corporates through to advising on complex international acquisitions and disposals. The firm has a nine-strong corporate finance practice working across its Reading, Oxford, Newbury, Southampton and London offices. Carr said: “I am looking forward to contributing further to James Cowper's success by providing next generation financial due diligence services.”
• Bracknell-based Keltec, a leading provider of IT solutions, IT support and IT managed services, has appointed Simon Pemberton as managing director. The appointment is a promotion for Pemberton, who was previously sales and marketing director, in recognition of his success in recent years in growing Keltec’s revenue performance and profitability. In his new role Pemberton is responsible for setting Keltec’s strategic direction and ensuring the company achieves its business plan’s projected high-growth objectives. This includes an anticipated annual revenue growth rate of over 30%. Pemberton comes to the role after almost 11 years with Keltec, in which time he has worked up the ranks through the roles of account manager, sales manager, and sales and marketing director. He has been in the IT industry for 15 years and prior to joining Keltec worked for IT services company Datalect and PSU Computers.
• Law firm Shoosmiths has strengthened its competition law offering with the appointment of a new partner, Simon Barnes (left), who joins from international law firm Hogan Lovells. Barnes, who is described in the 2012 edition of legal directory Chambers as “wonderfully impressive”, has extensive experience advising on competition law compliance, merger control, competition investigations and litigation. As well as working with businesses to develop and implement effective compliance programmes for their staff, Barnes regularly provides advice on the competition law considerations arising from clients’ day-to-day commercial arrangements. He will be based at the firm’s Reading office and will work alongside Peter Andrews (right), partner and head of Shoosmiths’ growing EU and competition unit.
• CRDM, the UK’s longest- established provider of rapid prototyping and tooling services, has appointed a new commercial director, Abhilash Katkoria, to assist with the company’s ambitious growth plans. Katkoria, who joins CRDM from his position as finance director at ARRK Product Development Group, has more than 20 years of commercial experience and extensive hands-on financial and management accounting experience.
• High Wycombe-based chartered accountants The Fish Partnership LLP has made a new appointment to its tax team. Jennie Millward- Dugdale joins the Loudwater firm as tax manager following three years as a tax client portfolio manager at Bourne End accountants MR Salvage. Millward-Dugdale, who is a fellow of the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) and qualified with the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (TEP), began her career at the Inland Revenue more than 20 years ago, and has worked for a range of accountancy firms.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – APRIL 2012
• Ian Nutt and Tom Copas have been appointed as the new chairman and president of the Newbury & District Agricultural Society for 2012. The appointments were made at the society’s recent annual general meeting. Nutt has lived in Berkshire all his life and is managing director of agricultural firm Lister Wilder. Copas is a fellow of the Royal Agricultural Societies (FRAgS) and senior partner of The Copas Partnership, a family-run business based in Cookham Dean and Henley, which among other ventures is one of the UK’s largest producers of high- quality Christmas turkeys.
• The Hare Restaurant and Bar in Lambourn Woodlands has appointed Jamie Hodson as its new head chef. Hodson was formerly head chef at the Crab at Chieveley and, more recently, worked at Gordon Ramsay’s York & Albany. Front of house manager, Bruno Gautier, said: “We are delighted to welcome Jamie to The Hare as our new head chef. He will build on the excellent foundation set by our previous head chef, Paul Reed, and I am sure he will attract even more new diners to our restaurant as word on his refined approach to modern and traditional cuisine gets out.“
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