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• Oxfordshire’s longest-established firm of architects, town planners and urban designers, West Waddy ADP LLP, has appointed Alex Pratt OBE as non-executive chairman of the partnership. A serial entrepreneur, Pratt is chairman at Buckinghamshire
Thames Valley Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and chairs Buckinghamshire Business First. Since March 2014, he has also chaired the management board of the national LEP network of all 39 LEPs, bringing together private, public and civil sectors in a focused mission to drive stronger economic growth and business development across the UK. He was previously a director of the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA). Pratt’s appointment is intended to give strategic guidance to the partnership at a time of considerable growth and opportunity, particularly within the housing and transport sectors.
• Baker Tilly has appointed five new partners in the south region. Sandra Snow from the firm's Guildford office; David Taylor and Perry Linton from the firm's Reading office; and David Hilland and Helen Relf from the firm's Gatwick office all passed the firm’s internal selection process and took on their new roles from April 1. Snow has 20 years’ experience in professional services. Having joined the firm in 2005, she has been Baker Tilly’s national HR and development director for eight years. She is responsible for the national HR, development and training strategy. Taylor joined the firm in 2009 as a director, and is responsible for developing the firm’s restructuring and recovery offering in the Thames
Valley. His work covers all forms of formal insolvency and advisory. Linton is an audit and assurance and advisory services partner and has been with Baker Tilly for 16 years. His client portfolio includes a mix of national and international owner-managed businesses with a particular focus on the engineering, manufacturing and IT sectors. Hilland has been the deputy director of IT at Baker Tilly for 16 years. He is responsible for developing and implementing the firm's IT strategy. Relf has a legal background and trained in tax before joining Baker Tilly as a tax director in 2010. She specialises in advising on tax-efficient structures, income and capital gains tax planning, and helping clients to plan for succession and exit.
• Regional law firm Pitmans LLP has appointed corporate director Oliver Pilkington in its corporate and commercial team. In a career spanning 14 years, Pilkington has gained experience of a wide variety of corporate transactional work (both domestic and cross-border) and was previously a senior associate in the London corporate team of K&L Gates LLP. At Pitmans he will be working with Roger Gregory, one of the firms’ corporate partners, and will be based in the firm’s London office. He will focus on equity capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions as well as providing general corporate and commercial legal advice.
• Jonathan Adams has begun his role as the new CEO of Aylesbury-based
training provider ATG Training, bringing a wealth of experience in the employment sector and in management roles. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, he started his career as an employment adviser and more recently gained further leadership and strategy skills mobilising and managing a contact centre that provided information and guidance to separated parents on making the best maintenance arrangements for them and their children.
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THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – MAY 2015
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