Linda to focus on new manufacturing growth unit

The new unit is aimed at helping manufacturing companies in Yorkshire to grow by improving their efficiency and effectiveness.

This service is focused on those manufacturers that cannot gain Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) funding due to their size or connections with a larger group, but the team will also deliver MAS-funded offerings.

With 20 years’ experience in leadership and production and operations management, Ms Harrison was also previously a part-time lecturer in production and operations management at the University of Teesside.

Elsewhere, IT services business TSG (Technology Services Group) has appointed Gerry Duffy as its new group sales director.

Mr Duffy takes over at TSG, which has a regional base at Colton, Leeds, from Jim Henderson who has led the sales team for more than six years and will be retiring later in the spring.

Mr Duffy previously held a number of senior roles at Nokia before joining THUS, which had been a customer while he was at Nokia.

Meanwhile, accountancy firm Sheffield-based Landin Wilcock and Co is welcoming a new partner to its board.

Howard Mee joins Landin Wilcock’s management team to support the existing partners in general practice and develop the firm’s corporate finance expertise. With more than 20 years’ experience in chartered accountancy, Mr Mee most recently worked for Smith Craven.

Also in Sheffield, Taylor&Emmet has appointed a new commercial property partner.

Solicitor Max Marrison joins Taylor&Emmet having worked at the Sheffield office of Irwin Mitchell for the last six years where he focused on the development, retail and leisure sectors.

Prior to that, he spent three years in Leeds at Walker Morris, following his return to Yorkshire from Bristol.