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• RBS Invoice Finance (RBS IF) has appointed Steve Bentley as regional managing director for the South West and South Wales region. Bentley has worked for the RBS Group for more than 30 years in various roles and for RBS IF for the past 12 years. In his new role, he will be responsible for a sizeable team which is experienced in working with the SME sector.


• Chartered accountants and business advisory firm Wilkins Kennedy has expanded its outsourced services department with the appointment of Kelly North-McKay as payroll manager in the Romsey office and Caroline Kok as outsource assistant at the firm’s Winchester office. North-McKay has more than nine years’ experience in the payroll and benefit sector and Kok has a background in administration in the property sector. Paul House has also joined as a corporate tax manager at the firm’s Winchester office, having spent more than six years at Ernst & Young’s Southampton office. He will work with SMEs and corporate clients with international groupings, undertaking advisory work on all aspects of corporate tax.


• Independent family-owned hotel group the FJB Collection has appointed Philippa Thompson general manager at the AA four-star Sandbanks Hotel in Poole. With over 30 years’ experience in the hotel and hospitality industry, Thompson joins from Champneys, the luxury health spa hotel group, where she has been general manager at the Forest Mere hotel since 2005.


• Hampshire Chamber of Commerce has strengthened its events team with two fresh appointments. Tara Holtom (right) and Katie Crow are the first hires since the business membership network opened a new hub for the south of the county at Wates House, Fareham. Holtom, event and training co-ordinator, has worked for Hampshire companies such as IT services provider Cobweb Solutions and sailing and watersports’ holiday firm Sunsail. Crow, area event manager for North Hampshire, has moved from Southampton FC’s conferencing and events company Halo. The Chamber has located events and membership services at Wates House, the former Business Link premises now managed by the Southern Enterprise Alliance.


• Increased demand for employment law has prompted south coast law firm Moore Blatch to make a key appointment. Emma Vines has joined the employment law team, working across the firm’s offices in Hampshire and Richmond.


• Bond Pearce has appointed Nicky Loadsman as a consultant in its regulatory team, where she will be leading the regulatory compliance service. Based at the firm’s Southampton office, she was previously a partner at Nabarro, and most recently a partner at Hill Dickinson.


THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH CENTRAL – MAY 2012


• NatWest has further strengthened its Southampton commercial banking team with the appointment of Paul Sims to the role of senior relationship manager. Sims, who will be based in NatWest’s Commercial Banking office at Hampshire Corporate Park, Chandler’s Ford, has worked at NatWest since 1982. Having spent most of his career in Sussex and Surrey, he moved to Portsmouth in 2009 to resume the role of senior relationship manager serving SMEs with support and advice. In his new role he will replicate his previous role and work closely with Southampton commercial director Andy Swift and his team.


• Ringwood-based Raymond Brown Minerals & Recycling has appointed Andy Penney as a new sales manager. Penney joins from Hanson UK, where he has spent the past 22 years managing sales to the construction industry. The appointment follows significant investment by RBMR in a new washing plant at its quarry in Binnegar, Wareham, which will improve further the quality of sand and increase the amount it can produce and sell.


• Audit, tax and advisory firm Grant Thornton has appointed Zaenia Rogers to its growing tax team as VAT manager in Southampton. Bringing more than 10 years’ experience in the profession, Rogers, who has formerly worked for The VAT Consultancy, RSM Tenon and KPMG, said she was delighted to provide a VAT service that minimises risk and maximises savings for a growing and diverse client base.


• In response to increasing demand for specialist building consultancy services, Philip Walster has joined CBRE’s south central building surveying team as an associate director. Based in the regional office at Ocean Village, Southampton, he will focus on specialist areas including the procurement of extensions and alterations, dilapidations, party wall works, boundary disputes, building surveys and planning supervision. Prior to joining CBRE, Walster spent six years at BNP Paribas Real Estate.


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