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• BDO’s Southampton office has promoted James Tetley to tax director. Tetley joined the accountancy and business advisory firm in 2007 having qualified in London. He specialises in advising companies on R&D tax relief and other incentives for companies that innovate in the UK, and has supported tax partner Stuart Lisle in building the Southampton office as a national centre of excellence for R&D tax advice. In the past two years, he has successfully helped clients across a diverse range of sectors to make claims in excess of £100 million for R&D tax relief, to support their continued investment in UK- based research and development.
• Former business editors Andrew Diprose (right) and Ron Wain (left) have been promoted to joint managing directors at expanding communications consultancy Deep South Media (DSM). They were previously operations and commercial directors respectively. Gareth Weekes, founder of the nine-strong media relations specialist, becomes executive chairman, having been managing director since 1998. Diprose set up the PR arm of DSM from scratch in Dorset in 2005; Wain did the same in Hampshire the following year.
• Leading maritime intelligence provider Dryad Maritime has appointed Nik Askaroff as chairman, in the first appointment of its type at the company. With over 25 years’ experience of growing international businesses, he is chairman and non-executive member of four other high-growth companies. A qualified chartered accountant, his previous roles include chief executive of a listed company, president of the south eastern chartered accountants, Business Link chairman, and chairman of the South East innovation and growth team.
• Bournemouth University (BU) has appointed two pro vice-chancellors as senior members of its leadership team. Dr Sonal Minocha (right) has been appointed pro vice-chancellor for global engagement and Professor John Fletcher (left) for research & innovation. Having joined Sunderland University in 2010 as an associate dean, Minocha later moved to the University of Bedfordshire. Fletcher’s new role follows his appointment as acting pro vice-chancellor for research and innovation at BU in January. He began his academic career as a lecturer and director of the Institute of Economic Research at UCNW, Bangor, before becoming head of Surrey Research Group in 1990.
• Eric Robinson Solicitors has appointed Deborah Cable in expanding its resolution and commercial departments. The firm has grown its offering to include environmental and business regulation, areas in which Cable is a specialist. She joins from Blake Lapthorn where she worked in professional regulation, risk and compliance. Her focus is in helping clients prepare or defend themselves in areas of business regulation such as food, trading standards, health and safety, product liability and environmental health.
• Philip Nelson, professor of acoustics at the University of Southampton, has been appointed chief executive and deputy chairman of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the UK’s main agency for funding research in engineering and the physical sciences, and investing around £800 million a year in research and postgraduate training to help the nation handle the next generation of technological change. Nelson remains an active researcher, having worked mainly in the fields of acoustics, vibrations, signal processing, control systems and fluid dynamics.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH CENTRAL – APRIL 2014
• Goadsby Commercial has boosted its team in the Southampton office with the relocation of Tim Clarke from its office in Bournemouth. The Southampton office comprises an established team of commercial agents and surveyors offering agency, valuation, planning, landlord and tenant and CAD services. A building surveyor with experience in contract administration, schedules of dilapidations and building surveys, Clarke already works within the Hampshire and surrounding region. The appointment follows on from the firm’s recent recruitment of landlord and tenant expert Claire Elderfield.
• International trade expert Mark Baulch has been appointed to help the south’s exporters reach high growth markets through an £8 million business-led partnership. Baulch will work from the Fareham office of Hampshire Chamber of Commerce to connect firms with an accredited network of overseas business centres and support services. The network is being developed by British Chambers of Commerce, UKTI, and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The aim is to help double the level of annual British exports to £1 trillion by 2020 and raise the number of UK exporters by 100,000.
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