People: Former Addleshaw lawyer makes move; Harewood Trust announces new director; and more

SCARLETT COOKE has joined the commercial department at Bury & Walkers Solicitors from Addleshaw Goddard.

Ms Cooke has experience in commercial dispute resolution, debt recovery and intellectual property and the construction and engineering sector along with retail and banking.

The commercial team at Bury & Walkers Solicitors deals with a wide number of clients from local Yorkshire SMEs to larger businesses with national and international interests. It specialises in landlord law, employment law and debt services for businesses.

Joint managing partner Michael Burke said: “Scarlett will be a valued addition to our team, she has a varied background and will fit in well with our client focused culture.”

Bury & Walkers Solicitors has offices in Leeds, Barnsley and Wombwell.

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Harewood House Trust has welcomed a new trust director.

Jane Marriott joins Harewood from Yorkshire’s award-winning art gallery The Hepworth Wakefield, where she has held the position of managing director and formerly deputy director since August 2014.

She has successfully managed new commercial and fundraising initiatives as well as the reorganisation of The Hepworth Wakefield to help enable the gallery to deliver the long-term goals in its business plan and to achieve excellence in the learning and exhibitions programmes.

Ms Marriott has been the driving force behind significant capital redevelopments, launching The Hepworth Riverside Gallery Garden, a major new public garden designed by Tom Stuart Smith, due to open in 2018. She has significantly increased visitor numbers to the gallery and introduced a major new public events programme.

Before joining the gallery, she was the director of development and director of the Royal Academy Trust at the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London, and a key member of the executive committee which provided strategic leadership and direction to the organisation. Following her promotion to director at the Royal Academy Trust she doubled the annual revenue contribution and raised over £37m for one of the most significant capital campaigns in the Academy’s history.

She said: “It has been a privilege working closely with Simon Wallis and the board to lead The Hepworth Wakefield through its success over the past few years and contributing to the gallery’s role within Wakefield and its national and international presence. I’m delighted to be taking up the prestigious role of director of Harewood House Trust and to continue my role in contributing to the growing role of culture and heritage in the region.

“Harewood House, built in the 18th century, has superb art collections, contemporary art exhibitions, an award-winning educational department, a renowned Bird Garden and over 100 acres of gardens. I look forward to playing a pivotal role in helping to develop and grow this ambitious organisation.”

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TECHNOLOGY group Servelec has appointed Alan Howarth as senior advisor to the board of Servelec Health & Social Care.

Mr Howarth has extensive senior executive experience in the Health & Social Care sectors gained with a range of national and international organisations from both the public and private sectors. He was one of the founding partners of the EY Management Consulting practice in the UK, and was chairman of a major acute NHS Trust for nearly seven years. He has co-written several papers including the “Intelligent Board” for the NHS, he participates in several technology forums that discuss leading public and private concerns, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

The company said the appointment affirms Servelec’s position as a leading player across the Health & Social Care markets and one which is positioned well to take advantage of further funding being made available to Trusts to upgrade their Patient Administration and Electronic Patient Records systems.  

The group is also capitalising on opportunities in the Social Care market as local authorities continue their system refresh of case management software.

Alan Stubbs, chief executive of Servelec Group, said: “Alan’s appointment underpins our focus on the Health & Social Care business going forward. Following a number of acquisitions made in recent years to build our portfolio in markets which we know are coming together, 2017 will be a year of building on the synergies that are common across the businesses to deliver efficiencies and align ourselves for the convergence of care provision.”