People: Director hire for EY; CEO of Transport for the North steps down; and more

Vanessa Lee

EY has appointed Vanessa Lee (nee Patterson) as tax director to lead its private client services team in Yorkshire, Humber and the North East.

Lee has more than 20 years’ experience in private client services with Big Four firms.  She joined PwC as a graduate where she worked for eight years before joining the KPMG tax team in 2004 as a private client tax advisor to high net worth individuals.

At EY she will lead the firm’s private client services offering throughout the region, working with entrepreneurs, high net worth individuals, families, family offices and trustees on complex tax planning.

Lee says: “I have spent much of my career working closely with family businesses and offices across the region. In particular I work with both current and future owners of multi-generational family businesses, focusing on overall strategy, governance and generational issue management. My focus is always on how family businesses can achieve sustained growth without neglecting the ‘family’ component of their business.  I have been hugely impressed with the team and breadth of experience which EY has together with its commitment to investing in the region.”

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Transport for the North (TfN) chief executive David Brown will be leaving the organisation in September to take up the role of managing director at Arriva Rail North, which operates the Northern rail franchise.

John Cridland, TfN chair said: “David leaves Transport for the North with our thanks and best wishes for the future.  He has been instrumental in developing TfN’s vision of a thriving North of England where modern transport connections drive economic growth and support an excellent quality of life.  He leaves a strong organisation ready to become the UK’s first statutory body with a clear direction to drive economic growth in the North.”

TfN said it will start the recruitment process for a new chief executive shortly.
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Peter McIntyre

Leeds-based accountants and business advisers Hentons is strengthening its specialist healthcare division following the appointment of Peter McIntyre as senior practice manager.
McIntyre joins from a Leeds-based GP practice. He brings over 13 years’ experience as a medical practice manager and will help to lead a strategic focus on building a wider healthcare offering.

Hentons already boasts a strong portfolio of clients in the healthcare sector across Leeds and Sheffield.

Nadeem Ahmed, managing partner of Hentons, said: “Peter has a wealth of healthcare sector experience and his appointment forms a key part of our growing health sector business.  Peter has not only a thorough understanding of the health sector, but also has an impressive number of long-standing contacts, and unrivalled depth of technical knowledge in dealing with GP’s and practice managers. His expertise will be a great asset to the Hentons team and invaluable to our healthcare clients.”

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Roger Marsh

Roger Marsh has been appointed to the role of chair of The Piece Hall Trust, leading the independent charity tasked with operating the transformed Grade I Listed building into a new chapter.

The Piece Hall will reopen on August 1 following an extensive multi-million pound renovation.

Marsh brings private sector and public partnership experience to the Trust which is responsible for breathing new life into the public asset, ensuring its long-term survival and continued preservation.

Since 2013, he has been chair of the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP), the public/private sector partnership promoting the Leeds City Region’s interests on a national and international scale by helping enterprise and business to thrive.

He was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list in 2015 for Services to Business and the Economy.

Marsh will replace acting chair Roger Harvey, who will now take on the role of vice-chair, to head up a strong executive team including the newly appointed chief executive, Nicky Chance Thompson.

Marsh said: “The transformation of The Piece Hall is already attracting significant investment into Halifax and it has the potential to boost the economy across the whole of Calderdale and the wider region. I am incredibly excited at the prospect of working with the Trustees and the executive team in shaping a dynamic and sustainable new era for a building that once was at the centre of the world’s woollen trade.”

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James Nellist

James Nellist has been appointed as a director of Lindum York.

Nellist started work for Lindum Construction in Lincoln in 2007 as a quantity surveyor and moved to the York office as managing surveyor in 2015 and now heads the commercial and estimating teams.

Lindum Group chairman David Chambers said: “James’ appointment as director is in recognition of the contribution, dedication and ability he has shown throughout the ten years he has been a part of the Lindum Team and for the responsibility he now has. Congratulations from all of us and we wish him continued success here at Lindum.”

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