Appointments: Company investing in the future
Published Date:
27 May 2008
Two rising stars at investment management company Rensburg Sheppards have been promoted.
Victoria Howden, who joined the Leeds firm last year, has been promoted to associate investment director, and Nick Bolton, who has been with Rensburg Sheppards for 10 years, has been made investment director.
Accountants and business advisers firm PKF have made two new appointments to its Leeds and Sheffield offices.
Andrew Ryder, who has been with the firm for more than seven years, is now corporate finance director of its Sheffield office.
Charles Escott has joined the Leeds office in the corporate recovery and insolvency team after a long career with RSM Robson Rhodes where he was managing partner of its Leeds office.
Andy Morley has been appointed managing director of Hull-based independent insurance business Rixon Matthews Appleyard, which
is part of the ProAktive
Group.
Morley joins from associate independent insurance business Atkinson Smith, Doncaster,
also part of ProAktive Group, which he joined 11 years ago and where he has been marketing director for the last two years.
Nimble Thompson, regional chairman of the Institute of Directors (IoD) in Yorkshire and the Humber, has been appointed as a non-executive director of the IoD's national board of directors.
Thompson was appointed as the IoD's Yorkshire regional chairman in 2005.
He now joins 10 other non-executive and six executive directors on the national Board which is tasked with the overall management of the Institute including core strategy and policy issues.
GWP Architects in Leeds has expanded its senior management by appointing Mohammed Afaq as a director and Chris Hunt as associate.
They will be involved in projects such as an £80m mixed-use development at Bradford University and other significant student residential schemes around the country.
Property advisor GVA Grimley in Leeds has expanded into the licensed, leisure and hotels sector with the appointment of Sean Hartley as an associate.
Hartley has more than 15 years experience working in the industry throughout the north of England.
Leeds law firm Fox Hayes has appointed partner James Thornton as head of its Legal 500 recommended Family Law department.
Hayes joined Fox Hayes as a partner in 2006 and specialises in matters including divorce and separation, property and financial issues, cohabitation contracts, disputes concerning children, and domestic violence.
He has also established a growing reputation in the niche area of high-value divorce work, regularly acting in multi-million-pound settlements.
Property lawyer David Barraclough, a partner at Shulmans solicitors, is the new president of Leeds Law Society.
He took over the presidency from Stuart Turnock. Deborah Green, chief executive of Marketing Leeds, was elected vice-president.
Barraclough, a member of Shulmans' real estate team, is well known and respected in both legal circles and the commercial property world.
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27 May 2008 2:21 PM
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