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• Accountancy firm Baker Tilly has expanded its specialist VAT team in the south with the appointment of associate director Colin Laidlaw, a VAT specialist with over 28 years‘ experience of advising clients from small and medium enterprises to big corporates. He has previously worked as a VAT expert at both HMRC and KPMG, and makes the move from Baker Tilly‘s London office where he has provided specialist VAT advice for the past four years. His role will be to provide VAT advisory services to new and existing clients in the South East.
• The award-winning insolvency and business turnaround team at Verisona Law has appointed insolvency litigation specialist Neil Stewart (right) as associate director to provide expertise to its corporate and private clients. With 17 years‘ experience in commercial dispute resolution and contentious insolvency, Stewart began his career in law after serving as an officer in the Royal Navy and then the Police Service. He trained and qualified in London before moving to the South Coast to join the commercial litigation department at Blake Lapthorn (now Blake Morgan) in 1998. In 2003, he joined Lamport Bassitt in Southampton where he became a partner at the firm. He is a committee member of the Southern Region of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals (R3), and through this has worked with the firm‘s head Nick Oliver (left). Stewart joins the team with newly-appointed litigation assistant Chloe Hicks (centre). Previously Hicks spent three years with global professional services firm EY.
• Pensions law specialist Rupert Graham-Evans is rejoining colleagues at law firm Blake Morgan after five years away. Graham-Evans left the firm, then known as Blake Lapthorn, in 2010, but has now returned to Blake Morgan‘s offices at New Kings Court, Southampton, as a legal director in the firm‘s growing pensions team. He rejoins from law firm Penningtons Manches. He has more than 10 years‘ experience of pensions law and advises employees, trustees, intermediaries and individuals on the legal aspects of pension and life assurance arrangements. He works across sectors including retail and leisure, the public sector, education and charities and also advises employers on pensions auto-enrolment.
• Kirstie Higgins has joined the sales department of Wightlink Ferries as senior account manager. No stranger to ferries, she worked at Sealink and Hoverspeed in Portsmouth and Southampton earlier in her career before gaining further experience of sales and marketing in several market sectors. Higgins will work with account manager Alex France in assisting Wightlink‘s trade and freight customers.
• National facilities and property management group Fasset has appointed Jack Prady (right) as national engineering manager. This is a new position assuming responsibility for developing and leading the 120-strong UK services team in the operation of its self-delivery/insourced facilities management business across the science, business and technology park sector. Michael Cripps (left), Fasset‘s operations and finance controller, said: “Jack will have a dual remit of ensuring the maintenance and engineering operation for the BEST Network locations are aligned and operate with maximum efficiency, while also developing and enhancing the Fasset facilities management services to a wider market.“
• Spectrum Housing Group has appointed five new members to its boards. Martin Lawton and David Todd join the board of property maintenance subsidiary Spectrum Property Care. Lawton is currently a senior manager for Paragon Housing, carrying out statutory compliance, maintenance and repairs management, and financial planning. Todd was CEO of Xmbrace from its inception in 2001 to July 2012 when the company was acquired by Kirona. Robert Barton and Claire O‘Shaughnessy join the board of development subsidiary Spectrum Premier Homes with Ian Baker who also sits on the Group board. Barton is land director with housebuilder and urban regenerator St Modwen Properties plc. O‘Shaughnessy has over 20 years of senior executive experience initiating and running major investment programmes in the housing and regeneration sectors. Baker is a residential development professional with 28 years‘ experience, 15 of these at director level.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH CENTRAL – OCTOBER 2015
• Louise Neville has joined Selsey-based Oceanair in the position of marketing manager. With a 13-year background in marketing, PR and communications, she brings a wealth of experience from the leisure, travel and tourism industry, having previously worked at Sunsail, Le Boat and The Moorings, as well as Southampton Airport.
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