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• Alison Colley has joined the employment team at Coffin Mew Solicitors, based at the firm’s Lakeside North Harbour office in Portsmouth. Specialising in employment law, she has experience in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment work and is an ACAS accredited work place mediator. A member of the Employment Lawyers’ Association, she also has HR experience, having worked as HR manager for her previous firm, and is a governor at Southampton Solent University.
• Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO has appointed Arbinder Chatwal (left) as audit director to head its national India advisory services team. Joining from Ernst & Young, he has extensive experience of working on cross-border transactions with India and will be based at BDO’s Southampton and London offices. He will lead a team which provides strategic advisory services to clients across the firm’s national and regional networks, driving business opportunities and improving trading links between the UK and India. Chatwal will work closely with BDO’s international liaison partner, Kim Hayward (right), based at the firm’s Ocean Village office. He has been involved with several UK trade missions to India, and is a director at Solent Indian Business Network (SIBN).
• Matthew Clake and David McWilliam have joined the board of Ellis Jones Solicitors as partners. Clake, a commercial property specialist, joined Ellis Jones six years ago, and took charge of a new commercial team at Ellis Jones’ Ringwood office earlier this year. His specialist area includes acting for landlords and tenants on commercial leases, land acquisitions and sales and also advising on the sale and purchase of small businesses. McWilliam joined in 1995 and was made an associate in 2003 and subsequently head of the personal injury department. He deals with all accident claims.
• Haskins Garden Centre has appointed its first director of marketing. Lisa Looker, a former director at Mary Portas’ communications agency Yellowdoor and head of marketing at art and craft retailer HobbyCraft since 2009, joins the head office team based at Ferndown in Dorset.
• Phil Colley, director of Havant- based Harvest Marketing Communications, has been awarded an employer’s award, Investor in Education, from Hampshire Governor Services. Presented by Roy Perry, executive lead member for children’s services at the county council, at a ceremony in Winchester, Colley was given the award in recognition of his support of Harvest’s employee Debra Higginbotham, current chairman of governors at Wicor Primary School.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH CENTRAL – SEPTEMBER 2012
• Wendy Hall, dean of physical and applied sciences at the University of Southampton, has been named as the second most influential woman in UK IT by a national computing website. Computer Weekly recognises Hall as being in the top 25 women who have had a major impact on UK IT. With Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt, she co-founded the Web Science Research Initiative in 2006 and is currently a director of the Web Science Trust.
• John Taylor, managing director at RSM Tenon in Southampton, has been appointed the president of the Southern Society of Chartered Accountants (SOSCA). Having qualified as a chartered accountant in 1993, Taylor joined Financial Training and in 1996 moved to its Southampton office before eventually taking on responsibility for the south as well as the national tax business. After a spell with CMA Financial Recruitment, he joined RSM Tenon in 2007 to create what has become the firm’s largest specialist employment tax practice.
• Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO’s Andy Beckingham has returned as regional partner to lead its business restructuring team across Southampton and Reading, resulting in the formation of one of the largest specialist teams in the region. He will work alongside business restructuring directors David Smithson and Matthew Fox in Southampton, and Tim Townley and Andrew Smith in Reading. Beckingham, who lives in Hampshire, has specialised in insolvency, business restructuring and turnaround work for more than 25 years.
• Go Ahead Group-owned bus companies Wilts & Dorset and Bluestar have announced changes to the management team. Ed Wills has been promoted to operations director for Wilts & Dorset, Bluestar and sister companies Southern Vectis and Tourist Coaches. Nikki Honer, former commercial manager at Bluestar, has moved to Wilts & Dorset in the same role.
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