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• Matt Hawkins, chairman of Westbourne technology company C4L, has been shortlisted in the ’Entrepreneur of the Year’ category of the Dorset Business Awards, which received a record-breaking number of entries this year from more than 130 companies within the BH and DT postcode areas. This recognition is based on his innovative approach to technology, forward thinking, and his donation of time, resources and money to start-up businesses and local universities. The overall winner will be announced at a gala awards dinner to be held in Poole on November 28.
• Paris Smith has welcomed three new trainee solicitors: Anna Robinson (right), Abigail Sinden (left) and Matthew Steinbrecher. They will spend the next two years completing their training as solicitors before qualifying, having already spent four years gaining a law degree and a postgraduate qualification. All have connections to the area and made the choice to work in Southampton. Robinson is starting her training in dispute resolution, Sinden in commercial property and Steinbrecher is initially training in the family department.
• Hampshire-based telecommunciations provider OneCom has appointed James Bannister as sales director of OneCom Services. Formerly vice president of UK and Ireland at major technology distributor Ingram Micro Mobility, Bannister has a wealth of experience in the telecommunications industry and a background in sales, marketing and customer relations. He will continue to grow OneCom’s expanding IT and telephone systems services for businesses, which run alongside the firm’s thriving mobile phone services.
• Duncan Lyle, personal insolvency specialist in Baker Tilly’s Southampton office, has been promoted to director in one of a number of senior promotions following Baker Tilly’s recent acquisition of RSM Tenon. Lyle specialises in personal insolvency and has 15 years’ experience working on both corporate and personal insolvency cases, most recently bankruptcy assignments. He has specific knowledge of pension policies in bankruptcy, having been appointed trustee on 100 cases in the latter part of 2012.
• CBRE in Southampton has appointed four new members of staff. Amanda Hook (left) has joined the valuation team as a senior surveyor. Having moved to Hampshire in 2011, she undertook a number of specialist interim roles at Woolley and Wallis and Bournemouth Council prior to joining CBRE. Liam Small (right) has joined as a surveyor with the lease consultancy team, having spent the past three years at Goadsby, where he qualified as a chartered surveyor. Telani May has been appointed as a property administrator to assist both the building surveying and property management divisions, while Lizzie Needham has joined the agency administration team.
• Law firm Glanvilles has appointed Lauren Crews to its growing property services team at Cams Hall in Fareham. Crews, who trained with the firm, graduated from Sussex University in 2010 and went on to achieve a distinction in her legal practice course before joining Glanvilles in 2011. Now fully qualified, she is the latest in a long line of trainee solicitors that have gone on to qualify and accept a position with the firm.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH CENTRAL – NOVEMBER 2013
• Marketing agency Leepeckgroup has pulled off a major coup by signing one of the most high-profile marketing professionals in the UK. Philip Price, who has held senior positions at P&O Cruises and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, joins the Southampton-based agency as client services director. Leepeckgroup managing director Sue Thomas said: “We couldn’t be more thrilled. Phil’s track record speaks for itself.“
• Simon Kemp from the University of Southampton has been shortlisted for Most Innovative Teacher of the Year by The Times Higher Education magazine. Praised for his ability to channel his passion for his field into effective student-focused teaching, Kemp, principal teaching fellow in the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, is one of six academics from across the UK in the running for the award. This year’s winners will be announced on November 28.
www.businessmag.co.uk
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