On the move: the latest East Midlands hires

Savills has strengthened its residential sales team in the East Midlands with two new appointments.
Ian Marriott joins the property agency as a director and joint head of residential. He will be responsible for properties in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire.
Meanwhile, James Eastaway has joined Savills Stamford as a residential sales associate. His patch will include Stamford and the wider county of Rutland as well as Peterborough and parts of Cambridgeshire and South Leicestershire.
Marriott, who worked for FHP Living for last five years, has more than 30 years’ experience of the local property market. He is also senior vice president of Nottinghamshire Rugby Union.
Eastaway boasts over 16 years’ industry experience including six years at Fine & Country.
James Abbott, head of Savills’ residential business in the Midlands and North East, said: “We’re delighted to welcome Ian and James to our Nottingham and Stamford teams respectively. Ian is renowned for providing consistently exceptional service to his clients and has a fantastic track record in connecting people and property, and he will be a tremendous asset to an already experienced team co-run by Chris Charlton. James’s wealth of expertise and local knowledge will be a great addition to the team in Stamford and we are thrilled to have him on board.”
Elsewhere, East Midlands-based businessman Luke Willmott has joined AutoCoinCars, the UK market leader in trading cars with cryptocurrency, as commercial director.
Luke Willmott
He will head the AutoCoinCars team from his office in Nottingham and the AutoCoinCars head office in London.
Willmott, who has also invested in the business, said: “I am delighted to be joining Mustansar [Iqbal, AutoCoinCars’ founder] at a really exciting time. We are a pioneering business and together Mustansar and I, along with our growing team in London and the East Midlands, will be expanding our offering.
“AutoCoinCars was founded on the basis of providing the solutions to enable car dealers to sell their vehicles to a completely untapped market of cryptocurrency along with regular cash buyers.”