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• Leading business adviser Grant Thornton has added to its growing team with the appointment of Charles Cavendish as financial planning manager at its Southampton office. Cavendish joins the firm from financial advisers Towry in Chichester, where he was wealth adviser. Within his new role he will advise high- and ultra-high- net-worth individuals seeking to preserve and enhance their wealth through independent and impartial advice. Cavendish is a chartered financial planner and fellow of the Personal Finance Society.
• At the end of the year, senior partner Ian Fretten (left) will retire from Frettens Solicitors, nearly 35 years to the day from when he opened the doors of the office for the first time in 1978. The firm has seen many changes but has retained, through Fretten‘s leadership and energy, a focus on property work and on providing a friendly, efficient and proactive service. Matthew Fretten (right), Ian‘s son and the firm‘s commercial partner, has become managing partner. David Walton, conveyancing partner at the New Milton office, will take over from Ian Fretten as head of the firm‘s residential conveyancing department, and Helen Jones, conveyancing associate, will assume a new role as head of conveyancing in Christchurch, with responsibility for the day-to-day running of the teams based there.
• Ben Jones has joined the University of Southampton as aerospace collaboration manager. He will be responsible for helping to deliver the University‘s aerospace strategy and developing relationships in aerospace and defence, forming partnerships for research and its application. Jones, who who graduated from Southampton with a master‘s in aerospace engineering, comes to the University from Rolls-Royce where he worked in a range of engineering rolls including engine performance, manufacturing and design.
• Blake Lapthorn has appointed Lee Grunnell as its new director of marketing and business development. Grunnell has over 10 years‘ domestic and international business development experience. He joins from DAC Beachcroft LLP where he was director of business development; previously he worked in the global tax group at Ernst & Young. His experience covers all elements of marketing and business development.
• Southampton-based marketing agency Spitfire Marketing has boosted its team with the appointment of marketing academic Professor Ashok Ranchhod as a non-executive director. He will be bringing his expertise, gained in both academia and business, to the agency. Emeritus professor at Southampton Solent University and reader at Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton), Ranchhod is a highly-respected academic with a strong business pedigree, having founded and run biotech company Microplants.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH CENTRAL – OCTOBER 2012
• Paul Page-Tickell has joined the commercial team at Coffin Mew Solicitors as IT partner. Having previously worked at Nabarro, he has been involved with technology and telecoms-based legal work for a number of years, with considerable experience working in-house with RACAL and NTL group. He has experience in 3G mobile auction advice, mobile network access agreements and ancillary procurement, managed IP services‘ contracts for multinational companies, competition law and other related regulatory and compliance issues.
• Moore Blatch Resolve has appointed experienced clinical negligence practitioner Paula Nash. Nash joins the firm to head the community health law department, which offers specialist advice to clients across a broad range of health and care issues, including elderly and disability care, the Children‘s Act, grants, benefits and social services assessments. Formerly a partner and head of clinical negligence at Lanyon Bowdler, in her new role she will work closely with Kelly Grieg, head of the firm‘s court of protection team and with the clinical negligence and personal injury teams.
• Professor Nigel Shadbolt, head of the University of Southampton‘s Web and Internet Science Group, was a member of the steering group for the new global Web Index, compiled by the World Wide Web Foundation, published last month at a launch event in London. The Foundation is led by Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web and a professor in electronics and computer science at the University. The new Index is the world‘s first multi-dimensional measure of the Web‘s growth, utility and impact on people and nations.
• Andreea Bostan, founder of Bournemouth-based Bostico International Translation, has been appointed acting chairman of FSB Wessex (Federation of Small Business Wessex). She replaces Julie Leigh in the role and will be acting chairman until the annual meeting in November.
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