Appointments: Former Hull City finance chief moves to similar role with property group

Property group Monument Investment Holdings has appointed former Hull City FC finance director James Craddock to a similar role. He joins the Leeds-based team as finance director.

Prior to his role in Hull, Mr Craddock was a senior manager at Deloitte's Leeds office before joining a regional property developer.

He will join Warren Hill on the Monument Investments board alongside Charlie Cudworth, managing director of Prospect Business Centres and Jonathan Raistrick, who heads residential house builder Loxley Homes.

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Accountancy firm RSM Tenon has made two new appointments in its Leeds office.

Scott Burkinshaw has joined the tax team as associate director. He has experience of providing proactive tax advice to businesses and their owners during roles in Yorkshire at Grant Thornton, PKF and BHP.

Meanwhile, Stephen Green has joined the corporate finance team as director, to lead the transaction services team in Leeds.

He has a background of delivering advice to a range of corporate, banking and private equity clients across the North of England over the last 10 years with both KPMG and more recently BDO.

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Accountancy firm Saffery Champness has made two key appointments at its Yorkshire office.

Katherine Knowles has been promoted to the senior management team on the corporate side following expansion of the company's commercial portfolio in Harrogate.

The firm has also appointed Laura Rhodes to the role of supervisor in the trusts and estates team following a number of new client wins in that sector.

Law firm Langleys has strengthened its real estate unit with the addition of solicitor Steven Plummer.

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Mr Plummer, who will be based at the firm's York office, will advise clients on all aspects of commercial property transactions, including landlord and tenant transactions, acquisitions and disposals and development. He also deals with corporate support and property finance work.

Oliver Maxey has joined the agri-business team at Yorkshire Bank's North Yorkshire Financial Solutions Centre in York.

A former agricultural consultant, Mr Maxey worked at HSBC from 2006 until joining Yorkshire Bank. He has experience in all livestock, large-scale arable and root crop production.

Law firm Gordons has launched a tax unit following the appointment of solicitor Mark Roe as head of tax.

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Mr Roe, who joins from the Leeds office of Addleshaw Goddard, advises on a broad range of taxes as they affect corporate and real estate matters. Three years ago he advised on the tax aspects of the 145.5m acquisition of Leeds Bradford International Airport by Bridgepoint Capital.

He will develop a dedicated tax unit which will operate within Gordons' corporate department.

Ed Stubbs has been promoted as Loadhog's first managing director. The firm's former general manager, who began his career in the US with Loadhog's parent company, Gripple, joined the Sheffield-based reusable packaging innovator five years ago as a sales manager.

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