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• NewVoiceMedia, a leading global provider of cloud technology, has strengthened its executive team with the appointment of Darren Smith as SVP sales engineering. Smith will be responsible for leading the organisation’s sales engineering team and assisting with new business and customer account management to support both high growth and operational efficiency across NewVoiceMedia’s expanding global footprint. He brings over 20 years’ industry experience.
• Law firm Blake Morgan has promoted four lawyers in its Oxford offices. Kathryn Woodward (left) in the firm’s succession and tax team, Catherine Morgan (right) in the family team and Cheryl McCready in
the real estate division are all promoted from senior solicitor to associate. Andrew Lang, a solicitor in the commercial services team, is promoted to senior solicitor. All are based at the firm’s offices at Seacourt Tower, Oxford.
• Toby Walker, who has recently become an ADR Group accredited civil and commercial mediator, has
• Gardner Leader, one of the fastest-growing solicitors in the South East, has appointed Catherine Wilson as its new finance director to manage its four-person finance team and to work with teams across its Newbury, Thatcham and Maidenhead offices. Part of her role will involve assessing the firm's financial processes so they operate to maximum efficiency and profitability including ensuring that partners have the latest figures at their fingertips so faster decisions can be made. For a number of years Wilson has specialised in helping dynamic, ambitious
been promoted to head of dispute resolution at Hedges Law in Oxford. Walker brings to the firm’s mediation a wealth of experience from appearing in court as a solicitor advocate for his clients in commercial, property, and inheritance disputes. He is an ardent proponent of the mediation process as an alternative dispute resolution method, having seen first-hand the benefits of gaining the certainty of a negotiated settlement, avoiding the many risks of litigation.
businesses to grow. Prior to joining the firm, she was finance director of Microsulis Medical in Portsmouth and the UK interim finance director of AngioDynamics.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – DECEMBER 15/JANUARY 16
• Thames Valley Berkshire LEP has appointed two new directors to its business-led board, with specific expertise and skills in key sectors for the area. They are Ute Bockstegers, chief finance officer of Bayer UK & Ireland, a pharmaceutical and life sciences company, and David Parry-Jones, vice president and general manager of VMware, a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility. Bockstegers and Parry-Jones join an executive board led by the private sector and responsible for charting a sustainable economic future for Thames Valley Berkshire, alongside advocates for the area from local government, education and the community sector.
• Buckinghamshire New University has appointed Sean Mackney as pro vice-chancellor education. Mackney joins on January 4 from the University of Exeter, where he is currently director of student education and engagement. Mackney’s previous positions have included acting chief executive and senior deputy chief executive at the Higher Education Academy and head of learning and teaching at the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
• Reading-based law firm Blandy & Blandy LLP has welcomed corporate lawyer Jonathan Williamson as its 19th partner. Williamson joins the corporate and commercial team from boutique London firm Oury Clark, where he was head of corporate and commercial. Highly experienced in acting for clients ranging from plcs to SMEs, he advises businesses in relation to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, IPOs, and other capital raisings, corporate governance and general corporate and commercial matters.
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