MEMBER SECTION: APPOINTMENTS
WHO’S MOVING UP & WHO’S MOVING ON
PINSENT MASONS Birmingham-based health care sector specialist Joanne Ellis is to sit on the global board of international law firm Pinsent Masons as one of a number of key new appointments. Rainer Kreifels, a corporate partner based
in the firm’s Munich office, becomes the first partner outside the UK to sit on the firm's Board, alongside Joanne. Alastair Morrison, who has been on the
Board for a number of years, has been appointed to a new role as Board member responsible for the firm’s client strategy. Laura Cameron steps back from her board role in order to fill the
position of Head of the firm’s Risk Advisory Services group. An external director will be appointed to the Board in due course. Richard Foley (pictured), senior partner of Pinsent Masons, said: “I am
delighted to welcome Rainer and Joanne to the firm's Board. As well as being first-rate practitioners, their appointments reflect the firm’s desire to put an international, sector-focused perspective at the heart of our business.”
KPMG Surinderpal Matharu (pictured) has joined KPMG as an associate director within the firm’s deal advisory practice at its One Snow Hill offices. Mr Matharu is returning to KPMG’s
corporate finance team in Birmingham, where he worked for three years, before moving to IMI in 2011. His new role will be to lead the corporate
finance team’s focus on diversified industrials, with particular emphasis on manufacturing and flow control engineering sectors. During his time at IMI, Mr Matharu worked within the global corporate
development and mergers and acquisitions team, focusing on transactional activity and strategy development, with particular emphasis on IMI’s Critical Engineering division, which supplies highly engineered products to the power, oil and gas, and wider energy markets. He said: “I look forward to bringing my corporate and international
business experience into my new role, enabling me to understand life on the other side of the fence, which I hope will be of real value to both new and existing clients.”
UNIVERSITY OF
BIRMINGHAM The University of Birmingham has appointed Professor Robin Mason as its new Pro-Vice- Chancellor for International. Professor Mason (pictured) is joining from
the University of Exeter, where he is Pro-Vice- Chancellor and Executive Dean of the Business School. The university said the post was ‘significant’,
and reflected the success of its pioneering global strategy and its ambitions to develop its international research, partnerships, and would also enrich the international experience for students. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham, Professor Sir David
Eastwood said: “I am delighted that Professor Robin Mason is joining us and bringing his wealth of international expertise to help cement our success and further our international agenda at a time when our global research activity is becoming ever more intense and diverse. “At Birmingham, the development of our international strategy and its implementation has always been academically-led, giving it a real depth and enabling us to work with our global partners to understand and address some of the most pressing global challenges.”
66 CHAMBERLINK FEBRUARY 2016 L-R: Katie Keates, Ann Cain, Verity Stokes and Victoria Beckett from Katie Bard
KATIE BARD Midlands recruitment firm Katie Bard has strengthened its team on the back of a period of strong growth. Victoria Beckett and Ann Cain have both joined as recruitment
consultants in the temps team at the Birmingham-based firm. Katie Bard has also promoted Katie Keates to executive consultant in its permanent team and added new graduate trainees, Charlotte Kay and Chloe Edwards to its ranks. Victoria, aged 24, is a graduate of the University of Northampton, while Ann, aged 22, graduated from the University of Birmingham with a degree in French. Verity Stokes, divisional leader at Katie Bard, which is part of the
international Angela Mortimer group, said the appointments follow a period of sustained growth over the last six months. She said: “We’ve enjoyed a really strong year so far, particularly in the last six months, with temporary and permanent work well up on the same periods in 2014.”
EY EY has appointed Joanne Kaveney-Davis (pictured) as a partner, to lead the firm’s new People Advisory Services team in the Midlands. Joanne, who originally joined EY as a manager in 1997 in the East Midlands, has 23 years’ experience advising multinational clients. She re-joins EY having spent two years at Walgreens Boots Alliance, based in Nottingham and prior to that, eight years as a director at Deloitte. In her new role, she will lead EY’s 40-strong
PAS team in the Midlands, an integrated practice combining experience from tax and advisory. Ms Kaveney-Davis said: “It’s a great time to come back to EY and I’m
excited to be joining the Midlands practice at a time of significant market opportunity. As the global workforce evolves and organisations continue to change, the need to understand the scale and complexities of how and where people work has become critical in achieving competitive advantage. “EY has a highly talented team in the Midlands and through our new people-services offering, we can harness the collective power of EY’s people by combining the experience of our tax and advisory practices.”
LODDERS Midlands law firm Lodders has announced that partner James Spreckley (pictured) is to take over as head of its specialist and top ranking agricultural and landed estates team. He takes over from David Lodder, who will
continue to work as a consultant in the team, advising the firm’s portfolio of agricultural sector clients that includes farmers, landowners, farming, rural and real estate businesses. Lodders’ agricultural and landed estate
team operates across the Midlands, the Cotswolds and the South West from its Stratford-upon-Avon and Cheltenham offices. Mr Spreckley said: “Providing advice to private and commercial clients in
all areas of the agricultural and landed estates sectors has been at Lodders’ heart throughout its 230-year history. Taking up the mantle as team head from David represents a significant and important step for the firm and its own succession planning for the next phase of its existence. “David has led the team very successfully for many years, establishing it
as the go-to place for specialist, informed and excellent legal advice for individuals and enterprises in the agricultural and landed estate sectors and in broadening the range of legal support now available to include tax, planning, property litigation and family advice.”
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