On the move: the latest East Midlands hires
A new marketing manager has been appointed at chartered accountants Newby Castleman.
Nicola Cooper has spent the past five years carving her career in marketing, most recently at a digital marketing agency where she managed client accounts and campaigns in a variety of sectors.
Her new role sees her based at Newby Castleman’s Leicester office, looking after all aspects of the firm’s marketing operations, from budgeting and strategy to website content and managing corporate events.
Cooper said: “I’m really happy to be taking up this position at Newby Castleman and I’m eager to start implementing my plans to freshen up our marketing content.
“We have a great team here and I’ve been made to feel very welcome. We host a heap of games nights, challenges and charity events which everyone enjoys.
“I am hoping to grow our digital presence too – we are a local Leicestershire firm and I plan to showcase some of the great events and things in our city and county via our social channels.”
Stephen Castleman, partner at Newby Castleman, said: “It is wonderful for the business to have someone with Nicola’s dynamism on board and we believe she has a major role to play in driving the business forward.
“We have been impressed with the significant contributions she has already made to a number of projects in the short time she has been with the company, such as the launch of our redesigned website and our Hope Against Cancer social media campaign.
“We look forward to supporting Nicola in her efforts to give the firm a more youthful, vibrant image.”
Bill Thomas and Andy Gilbert
Node4, the cloud, data centre and communications firm, has appointed Bill Thomas as chairman.
Andy Gilbert, chief executive at Node4, said: “Bill joins the Node4 team at a critical time, when we are gearing up to continue expanding and growing. We knew that we needed a Chairman of the right calibre to help us innovate, widen our market and improve the customer journey and experience.
“We felt that Bill’s successful career in IT and communications, together with his passion for a customer-focused approach made him the perfect fit for Node4.
“I am happy to welcome him, and look forward to working together to help Node4 fulfil our ambitious plans.”
Thomas has more than 30 years of experience in the IT services sector, having worked for over 20 years with EDS and Hewlett Packard, both in the US and in Europe where he ran the EMEA services business. Prior to his appointment as chairman at Node4, he also held a number of high profile non-executive director roles at several companies; including the Co-Op Bank plc, Balfour Beatty plc, GFI Software, XChanging PLC, Spirent Communications and VFS.
