people 57 Movers and risers
• Bournemouth planning consultancy Terence O’Rourke has bolstered its team with five appointments in the past two months and 11 in the past year. The company, which counts Grosvenor, MEPC, Warner Bros, McLaren Automotive and the University of Surrey among its clients, has added to its core professional disciplines of planning, design and environment. The new additions are a result of the firm seeing a marked increase in business. In recent months it has taken on a number of major projects, including new housing projects in Ellesmere Port, Cambridge, Surrey and Swindon; a major regeneration project at London’s Olympic Park; the Silverstone Technology Park; and the proposed Royal Pier development on Southampton’s waterfront. Managing director Tim Hancock (far left) says the uplift comes largely from recommendations and new projects from existing clients, who are impressed with the consultancy’s 97% planning success rate.
• Thames Valley and south coast accountants and business advisers James Cowper has strengthened its corporate finance team with the appointment of Caleb Lewington. With over eight years’ experience in the corporate finance market, Lewington joins from Serco’s commercial finance team where he worked across high- profile bids, M&A projects and developing commercial propositions across a range of sectors including defense, transport, healthcare and home affairs business units. Prior to this, he was manager at Grant Thornton in the corporate finance team in Southampton.
• Mark Handscomb, new Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking SME area director for South Central England, has strengthened the support for customers in the region with the appointment of nine senior managers. Previously area director of Hampshire and Dorset, Handscomb is now supporting SMEs in Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire. Among the newly- appointed senior managers are Paul Hayward and Paul Skilton. Hayward is responsible for supporting SMEs in the Isle of Wight, Southampton and the South Downs and will lead a team of nine relationship managers, looking after businesses with turnovers up to £25 million. Skilton will lead a team of 11 relationship managers who support SMEs with turnovers up to £25m within the Southampton, Salisbury and Winchester areas.
• Jessica May (left), solicitor at law firm Lester Aldridge, has been accepted as a full member of the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS). She is one of only a handful of lawyers in the region to achieve this prestigious qualification, including two others from Lester Aldridge, which is the only law firm in Dorset to have three full members of ACTAPS. May joins her colleagues, Geoff Thomas (centre) and Victoria Jones (right), who are both partners in the firm’s contentious trust and probate team. The team specialises in contested wills, trusts and estates and represents individuals, charities and care homes.
• The 150 staff at the Haskins Garden Centre in Ferndown have a new general manager. Matt Hill, who started with Haskins as a retail assistant in 1995, has returned to Ferndown where his career began almost 20 years ago, after studying horticulture at Kingston Maurward college. Since 2006, Hill has been both assistant general manager and then general manager at one of Haskins’ sister centres at West End, Southampton. Hill takes up this position in the centre’s 20th anniversary year.
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH CENTRAL – OCTOBER 2014
• Glanvilles LLP trainee Jennifer Pollitt has successfully completed her training and qualified as a solicitor. Pollitt completed her law degree (LLB) and Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice (LPC) before joining Glanvilles two years ago to complete her training. Pollitt has experience in matters such as declarations of trust, will writing and lasting powers of attorney. With a keen interest in trust work, she is already studying for a further professional qualification with the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.
• Future Southampton, tasked with improving Southampton’s built environment and infrastructure, has appointed top strategic marketing expert Trevor Thorne to help turn a long-term ’city blueprint’ into practical action and developments on the ground. Thorne takes up his new role following eight years as director of marketing and communications at Future Southampton partner Southampton Solent University.
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