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• Thames Valley and south coast accountants James Cowper has promoted two new directors: Sarah Robert who is head of James Cowper’s expatriate services and Stuart Williams who is part of the firm’s award- winning corporate finance practice. Robert joined the firm in 2009 and works with international clients. Having spent several years working overseas she now advises companies across many sectors on the best way to send staff overseas on short and long- term assignments. She also works closely with member
• UK property consultancy Carter Jonas has appointed two experts in its Summertown office in Oxford. Clare O’Hanlon MRTPI has joined its nine-strong planning and development team from South Northamptonshire Council where she worked for six years as major projects team leader, specialising in large scale planning applications. Prior to that she spent six years as senior planning officer at Cherwell District Council. O'Hanlon will provide Carter Jonas' private and public sector clients with planning permission management and submission, as well as appeal and general planning advice. Christopher Rhodes MSc MRICS has joined the consultancy's 11-strong rural team as senior surveyor from a firm of surveyors in Wiltshire, from which he brings an enormous breadth of rural experience. He will focus on estate management for a retained client in the Cotswolds while specialising in rural property asset valuations.
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firms of the James Cowper overseas Kreston network. Williams joined James Cowper in 2003 and its corporate finance team in 2007. He has built considerable experience in advising on the buying and selling of companies, having advised on over 50 transactions totaling more than £400 million. Both Robert and Williams are based in the firm’s Reading office but work across all of James Cowper’s offices: Oxford, Harwell, Reading, Newbury, Henley, Southampton and London.
• The Surrey branch of the Institute of Directors (IoD) has announced Robert May as its new chairman. May has served on the IoD Surrey committee for a number of years in roles including deputy and acting chairman. He is managing director
• The latest addition to the growing team of commercial property experts at the Vail Williams' Reading office is associate Steven Neal, who brings with him more than a decade of industry experience. Specialising in residential and commercial planning, Neal’s experience includes local government, developer and consultancy sectors. Having spent most of his career in the Thames Valley, as well as working on a number of projects in Hampshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire, he joins from Boyer Planning where he has worked for the past three years. He has worked on
of Godalming-based IT company ramsac which he founded in 1991. ramsac was listed in the 2013 list of top 50 managed-services companies for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) region, and is one of Microsoft’s top 10 partners in the South East. May picks up the reins from previous IoD Surrey chairman David Seall, who is now chairman of the wider IoD South region. Covering around 2,700 members, the IoD Surrey branch is run by local business people and IoD staff to support local members and organise inspirational and valuable business events in the area.
projects across the South East, Midlands and the East of England. Neal is experienced in promoting strategic sites through the local plan system as well as advising at local plan examinations and planning hearings.
• Handelsbanken Slough has appointed a new individual banking manager in response to increasing demand for its local relationship banking services. Rita Wood, joins the fast- growing relationship bank, with over 35 years of banking experience. She will be involved in developing existing customer relationships as well as welcoming new customers to Handelsbanken’s bespoke approach to local banking.
• Commercial property consultants Hicks Baker has announced two new additions to the firm. Stephen Gregory (left) BSc MRICS joins as an associate in the property and asset management department, increasing the number of surveyors in the department
to four. Gregory has worked in London and the Thames Valley for over 25 years. Joining the retail department, is Harry Bevins (right), who will be involved in the letting and acquisition of retail property, supporting director Fiona Brownfoot MRICS.
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