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• Lisa Forrester, who joined GCS Recruitment Specialists immediately after graduating in 2003 and has since become the company's highest billing consultant ever, has been named sales director. She will initially focus on continuing to develop the company's Reading office and the recently- launched New York office. Proof of her reputation within GCS is that she was voted its most valuable employee at its 2015 Annual Awards. "She is a shining example of what can be achieved through hard work, loyalty, and commitment." Further great news for Forrester and GCS was her nomination in the Women in Business awards, alongside representatives from
Santander and Microsoft. The event, organised by The Business Magazine, saw her chosen by the judges as a ‘Role Model’ in the Woman of the Year (Large Business) category. Forrester was the only recruiter to be acknowledged at the awards.
• James Cowper Kreston has strengthened its private client tax and rural business services team with the appointment of senior manager Penny Bowen. Bowen joined the firm in September from accountants Shaw Gibbs in Oxford, where she managed its private client practice leading a team of eight. She brings to the firm considerable strength and expertise in acting for wealthy individuals and their families, and working alongside business owners. She also brings an insight into the running of a farm business, having spent her life on the family's 386-acre mixed farm in Oxfordshire. Bowen is also an education adviser to the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.
• Spectrum Corporate Finance has announced that Simon Sherliker has recently joined the team as an associate director to further develop the company’s debt advisory business. Sherliker is an experienced corporate and structured finance banker having spent the past 13 years working in corporate banking with HSBC, RBS and Barclays. Over this time he has gained a wealth of experience and deep understanding of corporate finance with most of his time spent working in leverage finance completing a range of transactions in the UK M&A market place. His experience ranges from restructuring and portfolio management to the provision of acquisition finance both on a bilateral basis and through participation in multibank clubs and syndications.
• Richard Gwynne (left), a highly-respected figure in the field of commercial recoveries, has joined Spratt Endicott Solicitors and the leadership team has big plans to further grow the department. Gwynne joins Spratt Endicott from Shoosmiths LLP where he was director of commercial debt recovery, having worked for the company for the past 26 years forging his well- deserved reputation as an expert in the field. His move reunites him with his former
colleague Martin Hughes (right), non-lawyer partner and head of commercial recoveries, having previously worked together before Spratt Endicott demerged from Shoosmiths back in 2002. Recommended in The Legal 500 UK, Gwynne’s experience encompasses volume debt recovery, contentious litigation, insolvency, telephone collection techniques and an extensive working knowledge of systems in support of client requirements.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – OCTOBER 2015
• Turley, the UK’s leading independent planning consultancy, has expanded its Reading planning team with the appointments of Tim Burden, Donna Palmer and David Wetherill. Burden joins as a director and will lead the expansion of Turley’s planning work in the residential sector across the region. Formerly a director at Boyer Planning in Reading, his local expertise is based on more than 15 years' working in the Thames Valley and surrounding areas where he has advised on major residential, regeneration and employment schemes. He also provides expert advice on planning policy at both national and regional levels. Donna Palmer and David Wetherill have joined as senior planners and bring with them a wealth of expertise from the private and public sectors. Palmer, formerly a senior planner at Boyer Planning, has more than six years’ private sector experience working primarily on projects in the residential sector including large strategic promotions. Wetherill joins from Wokingham Borough Council where, as principal planner, he has worked with a broad range of stakeholders to negotiate and deliver a number of complex and high-quality schemes. He has also gained valuable experience of the public inquiry process.
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