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• Dr Rebecca Chandler- Wilde has been appointed as dean of enterprise & business management in the faculty of society & health at Buckinghamshire New University. Chandler-Wilde’s new role at Bucks commenced February and she will focus on providing strategic leadership of the faculty's enterprise, international and business management portfolio of activities. She took over from Crystal Oldman, who recently became chief executive officer of the community nursing charity, The Queen’s Nursing Institute
(QNI). Chandler-Wilde joins Bucks New University from Henley Business School where she held the position of client director, executive education, working closely with a wide range of organisations to design and deliver programmes of development for senior executives to help resolve organisational problems. Her areas of expertise include organisational learning, qualification programmes and information systems management. Having gained a physics degree from Imperial College London, she initially trained in chartered accountancy, before going into technical computer sales with IBM and then becoming a management consultant with KPMG. She moved to Henley Business School in 1996 as a lecturer, then subject area leader, before working her way up to client director in 2005. She gained a Doctor of Business Administration from Henley College in 2006.
• Gardner Leader, a leading solicitors' firm in Newbury and Thatcham, has promoted Caroline Benham from solicitor to associate solicitor in the dispute resolution team, which handles commercial and public disputes from breach of contract to issues over wills and inheritance claims. Since joining the firm in April 2012, Benham has already been involved in four significant, large-scale and complex commercial litigation High Court cases. As an associate with six and a half years experience in commercial dispute resolution, Benham will continue to manage her own clients, spanning across a range of commercial disputes from professional negligence, fraud, and partnership matters to shareholder disputes.
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• Basepoint has announced that Melanie Churcher has recently been appointed as regional manager of its business centres in High Wycombe, Swindon and Eastcote. Churcher was previously working as a general manager for Regus UK, where she covered centres in High Wycombe, Oxford and Maidenhead. During her five year tenure, she also helped set up the flagship Beaconsfield site. Prior to this, Churcher was working as a senior care assistant for the elderly where she specialised in dementia care. Basepoint currently operates 29 business centres across the south of England and the Midlands and
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• Clifton Ingram LLP, the Thames Valley law firm, has announced the appointment of Peter Bradbury as a consultant in its commercial property department, working from the firm’s Reading office. Bradbury was previously at Thompson Leatherdale solicitors and before that a partner in Ellis & Fairbairn. He has considerable expertise in property matters including landed estates, acquisitions and disposals of commercial and residential property, as well as land for residential development. Tim Read, head of Clifton Ingram’s commercial property department, said: “We are really pleased to
• Experienced insolvency professional, David Clements, has joined the Reading office of Harrisons Business Recovery and Insolvency as a director. He will be working alongside Debi Harvey, providing key turnaround and insolvency advice to businesses across the Thames Valley. Clements has more than 20 years’ experience in the Thames Valley and Solent region, providing insolvency advice, covering areas including corporate simplification, rescue protection, partnership insolvency and winding up procedures. During this period, he has undertaken a wide range of insolvency appointments from personal bankruptcies to large owner-managed business and international reconstructions. He particularly brings to Harrisons a focus on the asset-based lending sector, including business reviews, and broad sector experience in the manufacturing and construction sectors. Clements is a fellow of R3 the Association of Business Recovery Professionals and also a member of the IPA.
have Peter on board: he brings a wealth of experience and will add additional depth and strength to our very busy department."
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – MARCH 2013
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