Appointments: Davenham Asset Finance; AeroParker; Liverpool Waters;
MANCHESTER-based Davenham Asset Finance and Davenham Trade Finance are pressing ahead with major growth plans by appointing Richard Bamford as non-executive chairman to both businesses.
This is hot on the heels of the recent appointment of two new Business Development Managers to open up opportunities for a national sales team.
Best known as the founding chairman of Enterprise Ventures, the North west based venture capital management business, Bamford has recently worked as an independent adviser to SMEs, and has been now snapped up by Davenham to steer both companies to growth. He is a well-known entrepreneur and financier, particularly across the Northwest region.
Paul Burke, chief executive of Davenham, said: “Recognising a market opportunity and SME demand for finance, we started Davenham last year, and have since established ourselves firmly in the market, having already written significant business.
“2014 has been a sensational year for Davenham, and following our appointment of Richard as a proven business builder to join the Board, we are confident that we will deliver on our growth objectives.”
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AEROPARKER has announced the appointment of Alisa Beier as client development manager.
Experienced in multilingual business client services Beier joins the Stockport-based AeroParker team after working as a translator and customer support executive in the video games industry.
Raised and educated in Germany and England she has worked and travelled as a freelance translator within several science and technology companies.
Fluent in Spanish, English and German Alisa will be responsible for developing and implementing new business leads and partnering with key assets with industry.
Established since 2000, AeroParker is a specialist, trusted ecommerce platform incorporating revenue management that enables airports to offer passengers an easy way to pre book and purchase airport car parking and ancillaries in a single basket transaction.
AeroParker chief executive Jon Keefe said: “We see a great opportunity with Alisa leading AeroParker’s business development. Now more than ever there is increasing pressure on an airport’s revenue and the need to grow non-aeronautical income to make up the gap left by declining aeronautical revenues.
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OCD Events and its director Liz Dicastiglione has been asked by Liverpool Waters to help support its busy events programme.
Dicastiglione will help co-ordiante Liverpoos Waters’ business-to-business events calendar which includes the Dragon Boat racing at Princess Dock and music festival Sound City at Bramley-Moore Dock.
Her events career spans more than 16 years, having worked for businesses including Liverpool Vision, football clubs Everton and Tranmere Rovers.
She is a current member of the Spark Up campaign, a 20-week programme set up by the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce to encourage and inspire entrepreneurial thinking.
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MATTHEW Hard has joined Indigo Planning’s Manchester office as a senior planner.
He has more than 10 years’ experience working across a wide range of projects including retail, leisure, tourism and renewable energy.
He has worked closely with local authorities and has been actively involved in development management and site promotion. Matthew is a chartered member of the RTPI and has a MSc in Urban Planning.
