people 45 Movers and risers


• University of Portsmouth business enterprise graduate Phil Carr has had his business valued at £1 million within four years of leaving university. Carr came up with the innovative idea of developing an online platform which gives singers, producers, writers, or anyone involved in the music industry, the opportunity to meet and work with each other. The website, Music Gateway, was launched in August 2013, and the business – developed with a friend – has gone from strength to strength and already boasts over 20,000 members and being home to 3,000 successful music projects.


• Hampshire law firm Moore Blatch has promoted six new partners: Dorothy Agnew (second from right), from the firm’s commercial team, who specialises in IT, intellectual property law, e-commerce, data protection, distribution, agency and general commercial contracts; Claire Anderson (second from left), who heads up the Southampton residential property team, and


is the youngest person ever to be promoted within the firm; Stephen Ball (right), from the firm’s land development team, who specialises in residential land development; Jeremy Over (left), from the corporate team, who delivers strategic legal solutions to help businesses achieve their commercial objectives; Gaenor Thomas (centre), who acts for landlords


and tenants, negotiating all necessary occupancy arrangements and ancillary management documentation; and Sarah Watley, head of the asset recovery litigation and sales teams, who specialises in residential and commercial possession claims, property litigation, shortfall claims, debt recovery and professional negligence litigation.


• Leading property consultancy JLL has appointed Nella Pang as associate director in its Southampton office. Previously a senior surveyor at BNP Paribas, she specialised in the industrial, retail and office sectors. She has 10 years’ experience in the commercial property sector and has managed assets across the UK for global clients.


• Legal practice Eric Robinson Solicitors has welcomed Geraldine Dobson-Magee to the new role of ’in-house locum’ in its coveyancing team. Due to the increasing demand of the local property market and the need to cover a team of 18 fee earners in conveyancing, the firm created the role as a resource to ensure continuity and efficiency. Dobson-Magee’s first job in the legal profession was as a paralegal in the conveyancing department of Shoosmiths where her passion for property and the legal affairs surrounding it found its roots.


• Wightlink has promoted John Burrows (right) to the new post of chief operating officer. Formerly operations director, Burrows joined Wightlink in 2006 having worked for a range of shipping and ferry companies in the United States, Qatar, South America and throughout Europe. His new role will see him assume a wider range of responsibilities within the business including commercial and human resources. Taking over from Burrows as operations director is Wightlink’s current head of fleet operations Elwyn Dop (left). A certified master, Dop is a lifelong seafarer who joined P&O Cruises straight from school and has worked at Wightlink since 2003.


• Chichester-based agricultural business and Solent 250 company Bartholomews (Holdings) has appointed The Legal 500-recommended Tim Gleeson, described as ’astute and capable’, as its new company secretary and group legal counsel. Bartholomews services the agricultural sector across the south, providing a full range of inputs and advice as well as a crop marketing service that sees crops harvested in the region traded both nationally and internationally.


THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH CENTRAL – JULY/AUGUST 2014


• CBRE has announced two new department heads for its Southampton office. David Miller, who joined CBRE in 2005, and was promoted to director at the beginning of 2011, is to lead the property and asset management (PAM) department, and Richard Kirby, who joined in 2010 and became a director in 2013, will lead the building consultancy team. Former department heads Jon Diaper (PAM) and Jonathan Fairchild (building consultancy) have both moved into senior management.


• Andrew Watling, director at Southampton-based Quantuma Restructuring, has become chairman of the southern regional committee of R3, the insolvency trade body. With over 20 years’ experience in insolvency, he will be responsible for steering the committee – made up of insolvency practitioners and solicitors – towards meeting its aims and those of R3 nationally. Watling succeeds former chairman James Stares.


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