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• Graeme Lipman has joined the expanding team at Southampton- based Quantuma Restructuring to drive forward business development. The firm has ambitious plans to develop the restructuring practice across the south and his experience will help to build relationships with local businesses and generate work into the firm. Having started and run his own highly-profitable printing and publishing company for more than 24 years, Lipman has spent the past eight years working as a business recovery and insolvency expert.
• Business and tax advisers, CW Fellowes, has welcomed two new directors to its Fareham office as a result of a recent acquisition. Michael Middleton (left) and Zara Hogg (centre), together with their former staff and clients, join from the Portsmouth office of Blue Spire South LLP. Middleton is a chartered accountant, a chartered tax adviser and was formerly a tax partner. Hogg is a chartered accountant and was also formerly an audit partner at Blue Spire. Adam Wilson (right), managing director of CW Fellowes, commented on the appointments: “My directors and I are extremely pleased that Mike, Zara, their team and clients will be joining our office. Their appointment only goes to reinforce CW Fellowes’ commitment and further strengthen the services that we have available to existing and future clients.“
• Paul Colbran has been appointed Southampton Solent University’s new director of information and communication technology (ICT). He joins from Brighton and Hove City Council, where he was chief information officer and head of IT. In his new role, Colbran is looking forward to developing technologies that deliver the best possible customer experience and to providing a proactive service that can help shape the University’s future.
• Planning and urban design consultancy Turley Associates has appointed a dedicated national economic planning team to help clients measure and understand the economic impact and development viability to inform positive planning strategy. The team will be led by Richard Laming and include colleagues Antony Pollard (director) and Matt Spilsbury (senior economic adviser). The trio joined from property adviser GVA. Laming and the team have an established track record of delivering economic planning services for significant private and public clients across the UK, including Gladman Developments, Taylor Wimpey, Miller Homes, The Leeds City Region LEP and Britain’s Energy Coast.
• The CLA has appointed Megan Cameron as rural adviser, strengthening the advisory team in the South East. Cameron, who studied Agriculture, a National Diploma in Countryside Management followed by a BSc in Ecology and Conservation at Sparsholt College, previously worked for Natural England for five years delivering Agri-Environment Stewardship Agreements across the South Downs in Hampshire.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH CENTRAL – JUNE 2013
• Chartered accountancy and business advisory firm Wilkins Kennedy has appointed Naomi Nesbit as partner. Based in the Winchester office, Nesbit heads the corporate tax team, providing tax advice to companies and shareholders in both the SME and large corporate markets. As an ACA and CTA-qualified accountant, she provides pro- active advice for her diverse portfolio of clients across a variety of sectors, including property and construction, retail and manufacturing. Nesbit has considerable experience including expertise in the areas of corporate restructuring and transactions, venture capital schemes, R&D tax relief, capital allowances and international tax.
• Mark Watson has been made an associate at Glanvilles. A qualified lawyer, Watson is head of the firm’s property services team at Fareham and has vast experience of the local property market and clients’ requirements. The law firm also has offices at Havant and on the Isle of Wight.
• Paris Smith’s collaborative team has grown with the qualification of Helen Cort as a collaboratively trained lawyer. The eight-strong team of family lawyers, independently ranked as the best in the region, are now all qualified in collaborative law or mediation.
• Sarah Stannard, currently vice principal of Chichester College, has been appointed as the new principal and CEO of City College Southampton. She will take up her post in August, as current principal and CEO Lindsey Noble leaves to take part in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race 2013-14. Stannard said she was looking forward to building on the ’fantastic transformation’ that Noble had made to the college over the past 12 years. During that time the college has risen to the top 5% in the UK for success rates, undergone a £48 million campus redevelopment and had the best Ofsted results in its history. Stannard hails from a business background which included high-level roles with IBM, PwC and the UK Chip and PIN Programme.
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