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• As part of its ongoing growth plans, Whitley Stimpson has promoted Laura Herbert. She is based in the High Wycombe office and has become the firm’s fifth female director. Herbert began her accounting career in 2005 by qualifying as a bookkeeper, and in 2006 joined the Hale Partnership which became Whitley Stimpson through a merger in 2010. She gained her ACCA qualification in 2011 and her FCCA accreditation in 2016.
• Simon Pemberton has joined the MCSA group as head of commercial sales
for both the Maindec and CSA Waverley brands. An experienced sales leader, his arrival will enhance the group’s market position, support its goals of service excellence and maintain the strong progress planned. Pemberton’s arrival follows a long period at Keltec (part of the Annodata group), where he held a number of very senior leadership positions, helping to take the company through to a successful acquisition.
• Stuart Clowser, who joined audit, tax and consulting firm RSM as a graduate trainee in 2004, has been promoted to partner in the firm’s audit practice at the Guildford office. He qualified as a chartered accountant in 2007 and recently completed the firm’s executive-development training programme. He works closely with private equity funds, the operating businesses they invest in and owner-managed businesses. He specialises in advising high-growth and acquisitive businesses and those going through internal and operational change; and he has particular experience in advising private-equity, property and technology companies.
• Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has appointed Allison Giles as careers and enterprise co-ordinator. She will be responsible for the development of a local Enterprise Adviser Network, funded by the Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC). This development is part of a new, government-led, national programme from the CEC in which enterprise advisers, drawn from business, will be mandated to unlock the potential of young people aged 12-18. Giles’ role will be to strengthen links between schools and colleges on the one hand, and employers, careers and enterprise bodies on the other, building on existing, successful local models. She will focus on recruiting volunteer enterprise advisers, also drawn from business.
• Reading-based Haslams Surveyors has promoted Eilidh McAllister to associate. She works within the commercial agency department, advising clients on commercial transactional based work, including letting, sales, development and investment. She joined the firm in January 2012 having completed the undergraduate real estate degree at the University of Reading.
• Stevens & Bolton has appointed five new partners, including Alex Watt who has joined the real estate practice from Clyde & Co where he practiced for over eight years, having previously trained and qualified at Linklaters, and David Steinberg, a leading restructuring and insolvency lawyer, who will join from Clifford Chance in London to jointly lead the restructuring and insolvency team with current head Tim Carter. Three associates, Gabrielle Holgate (pensions), Charlotte Tillett (IP) and Rosie Todd (tax and trusts), all of whom joined the company in recent years from City of London firms, will be promoted to partner.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – MAY 2016
www.businessmag.co.uk
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