People: Business turnaround specialist expands; Law firm boosts litigation team;Former JD Sports director joins shopper marketing agency; and more

Peter Sargent

Sheffield insolvency business turnaround and recovery practice Graywoods has welcomed a new face to the team.

Peter Sargent has more than 35 years’ experience in insolvency, having previously run his own practice, which he sold to a national business turnaround organisation.

He is also a former president of R3, the leading insolvency trade body, and is an active member of INSOL, the world’s leading association for insolvency professionals and a trustee of the Debt Advice Foundation which provides debt advice and uses its profits to provide debt education in schools.

Sargent also works at the Welcome Centre in Huddersfield, which is a food bank and provides debt advice.

He will be based at the new Graywoods office in the Media Centre in Huddersfield, where he will be developing a stronger presence for the company in West Yorkshire as well as supporting his colleagues in helping clients to find the best solutions to their financial problems.

“I am delighted to join the Graywoods team and working back in Huddersfield which is my home town,” he said.

“I’m looking forward to preserving businesses and guiding business owners towards viable solutions to their problems.”

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David Molyneux

DLA Piper’s Sheffield office is strengthening its litigation and regulatory team with the hire of David Molyneux as an associate.

Molyneux trained and worked at Squire Patton Boggs for more than six years focussing on commercial disputes, with particular experience in pensions and financial litigation.  He has acted in cases in the County Courts, High Court and the Court of Appeal and before the Pensions Regulator.  His experience includes contract disputes, professional negligence actions and misrepresentation claims.

Richard Norman, head of the Sheffield litigation and regulatory department, said: “We welcome David into the team.  David’s experience and expertise will complement and reinforce us as the leading litigation and regulatory advisors in the region.”

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Tim Orrell

Shopper marketing agency FPP has added Tim Orrell, who joins from his role as group marketing services director at JD Sports Fashion Group, to its senior team.

Orrell will lead FPP’s UK client business out of its offices in Leeds and Newcastle, helping major retailers, manufacturers and brands to solve their shopper problems.

“I enjoyed my time with JD and the challenges that came with their on-going success and rapid growth, but it’s great to be back in “agencyland”. I’m looking forward to working with the team at FPP to get clients giddy about connecting shoppers with their brands.” said Orrell.

“The world continues to change and shopper marketing is responding, moving quickly into its next phase. It’s a great time to be joining such an established agency and get involved with shaping the way that retailers, manufacturers, and brands will, and must, respond. We all need to re-visit some of the established techniques as retail changes and start to think about how we can better communicate during an increasingly hectic and noisy shopper journey.”

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Susan Lea

Professor Susan Lea has been appointed as vice-chancellor at the University of Hull.

She will join in August from the University of Greenwich, where she has served as deputy vice-chancellor (Academic) for the last two years.

She said: “I am absolutely delighted to be joining the University of Hull as vice-chancellor. Building on the University’s strengths, I am looking forward to working with staff and students to realise its potential in terms of research, transformational education and the wider student experience. Importantly, the University also has a significant role to play in the city of Hull, the region and beyond. This is a time of great opportunity, and I am honoured to be part of this exciting future.”

Lea will joins the University of Hull as it embarks on an ambitious growth strategy with its £200m investment programme well underway.

Barry Dodd, chair of council at the University of Hull, said: “We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Professor Lea as our new vice-chancellor. Firm foundations have been laid at the University of Hull, through our extensive £200m investment programme and our ambitious strategic plan. Susan will now take the helm to build on these achievements and enhance the stature, reputation and influence of the University of Hull as a competitive, teaching and research engaged university focused on excellence.”

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