Appointments round-up: OrderWise; Mitchells; Grant Thornton

Lincoln-based business software provider OrderWise has bolstered its commerce and support teams to coincide with a major upgrade to its OrderWise Commerce platform.

Having kicked off 2016 with three new hires, the business management software specialist has added three more people, taking its staff base to more than 100.

Giovanni Gaudelli and Vytautas Kirjazovas join the company as technical support advisers while Dominick Greenslade has been appointed as a front end web designer.

Rob Bray

FCCA chartered accountant and motor trade specialist Rob Bray has joined the team at Chesterfield-based Mitchells Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers. Bray joins from a local accountancy firm and brings perience in the motor trade to his new senior corporate manager role. He has both worked directly in the motor industry himself as well as advising garages and dealerships, on finance, industry regulations and commission structures.

Grant Thornton has promoted public sector specialist Mark Stocks to partner.

Stocks joined Grant Thornton in 2012 from the Audit Commission and has over 25 years’ experience working with

Mark Stocks

public sector bodies, specialising in health and local government. He is head of the firm’s 70-strong public sector assurance practice in the Midlands and leads Grant Thornton’s health group nationally.

Stocks’ healthcare expertise includes strategy development, performance management, governance and risk management, working with foundation trusts such as Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, NHS trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups across the Midlands.