‘People champion’ Keycare boosts its ranks with three new staff members

Andie Hannam has joined the customer services team, finance assistant Madeleine Middlemas supports the board as part of the finance team; and fulfilment assistant Victoria Madeley has taken a role in despatch.

David Ross, managing director of Baildon-based Keycare, said: “As a ‘people champion’ who invests substantially in time and money in attracting and developing high calibre, dedicated and talented people our challenge is to continue to seek out top talent to complement our existing out-performing team. We take pride in the fact that our staff turnover is very low – over 90 per cent of employees have been with us for four years or more.”

Independent commercial property advisor GVA has appointed a new surveyor to its growing planning, development and regeneration team in Leeds. Adam Osborne has joined the eight-strong department at GVA’s City Point offices in King Street. He has worked across the private and public sectors, including a role at Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council and Drivers Jonas Deloitte.

Felicity and Mark Cunliffe-Lister, owners of Yorkshire Dales-based hotel Swinton Park and the 20,000-acre Swinton Estate, has announced the appointment of Tom Lewis as the hotel’s general manager. Mr Lewis has held senior management roles within the hotel industry for more than 20 years, including five years as general manager at Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons in Oxfordshire. During his career, he has also been manager at Gilpin Lodge, Windermere, Cumbria, Great Fosters, Egham, Surrey and The Feathers Hotel in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. More recently he has held a management position at The John Lewis Partnership.

Meanwhile, Langleys has appointed David Chant as an associate solicitor in dispute resolution. He previously worked at Ford & Warren in Leeds where he qualified in 2000.

Also in the legal sector, Andrew Milburn of Wilsons Solicitors has been promoted to head up the law firm’s new office in Baildon. Mr Milburn has been with Wilsons for six years having joined the law firm as a junior lawyer. Since joining Wilsons he has been predominantly based in the Whitkirk office where he has been advising clients on wills, probate, care home fee planning, lasting powers of attorney and various other areas of law.

Sheffield-based asset investment software company SEAMS has appointed a new project manager. Phil Mason was most recently with HSBC, undertaking portfolio management.