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• The board of Hampshire Chamber of Commerce has appointed Stewart Dunn to the position of CEO. This follows the announcement that current CEO Jimmy Chestnutt was stepping down after being in position for nine years. Dunn is currently managing director of Carswell Gould, an award- winning integrated marketing communications agency in Southampton. His previous roles in the newspaper industry included managing director of Newsquest Hampshire. Dunn is well known to the Chamber having been a former president of Southampton and Fareham and a director of Hampshire Chamber.
• A qualified chartered surveyor has joined the growing retail and leisure team at independent commercial property consultancy Hughes Ellard, which has offices in Southampton and Fareham. Before joining the firm Filipe Martins (left) was with Portsmouth’s Garner Wood for two years. Having studied property development at Portsmouth University and had a spell at international CBRE in London, he will now be supporting retail specialist Tim Clark (right). The retail and leisure team undertakes work across the South Coast, acting on behalf of institutional, property company and local landlord clients dealing with the leasing, purchase and sale and asset management of shopping centres, retail parades and individual shop units.
• OneCom, based in Whiteley, has appointed solicitor Stephen Hunter – formerly a director of the Fareham-based bank Hampshire Trust Plc – as its non-executive chairman. Hunter’s brief will include reviewing OneCom’s corporate structures and business processes and making recommendations regarding corporate governance, strategy, policy and business diversification. The appointment comes after a year which has seen OneCom grow to become the UK’s largest independent mobile phone provider. Hunter brings a wealth of business and legal experience to the role and already enjoys a longstanding association with the company’s CEO, Darren Ridge (see Entrepreneur profile on page 28).
• Three trainees have joined the 60-strong South Coast office of accountancy and investment management group Smith & Williamson in Southampton following a rigorous selection process. Katie Burden (left) arrives from Brockenhurst College in the New Forest, maths graduate Abbie Rutherford (centre) from Southampton University, and Gemma Craig (right) from the University of Bristol where she was awarded a masters degree in chemistry. All three will go on to do their ACA qualifications, the first step to becoming a chartered accountant.
• Russell Mogridge, a director at independent commercial property consultancy Hughes Ellard, which has offices in Southampton and Fareham, has been appointed to the South East regional board of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in a non-executive capacity. The regional board is active in a range of issues, from advising on the organisation’s external affairs activity in the region to developing membership, and advising on market and economic matters.
• Legal firm Glanvilles has appointed Hannah Lisseter to the private client team of its Newport, Isle of Wight, office. A senior solicitor with experience in will writing, estate and trust administration, powers of attorney and dealing with the affairs of the elderly as well as undertaking Court of Protection work, Lisseter brings with her many years’ experience and an excellent reputation. Having undertaken a private client conversion course she is now also a student member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH CENTRAL – FEBRUARY 2014
• Stuart Allen, head of Paris Smith’s growing property finance legal team, has collected a Gold Award in recognition of outstanding service in 2013 from key client InterBay Commercial, part of the OneSavings Bank group. Paris Smith’s property finance team acts for lenders and borrowers on property backed finance deals. Turnaround times are often measured in days rather than weeks or months, which has caught the attention of the market and borrowers who invariably need to move quickly.
• Leading Portsmouth legal firm Verisona Law has appointed one of its top commercial litigators Robert Small as a director of the company. Small had an unconventional route into the legal profession – recognising his potential, Nigel Cole, Verisona Law’s head of litigation, offered him both a job and sponsored legal training. He fully qualified in 2010 and after just three years has been asked to join the firm’s directorship.
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