On the move: the latest East Midlands hires
Aviation services provider RVL Group has appointed David Lacy as its new head of business development.
Lacy joined the East Midlands Airport-based airline in late May. He is tasked with bringing a fresh focus to existing client relationships, as well as generating new business for the company’s core capabilities – its flexible cargo operation, passenger charter, aerial survey, aircraft management and maintenance, and specialist operations.
“I shall look to see how RVL can expand our existing client relationships – see what opportunities there are to be of greater assistance to customers. I am also going out to find contracts with new clients and develop those relationships,” said Lacy.
“RVL’s key strength is its versatility. It is a flexible business, with an adaptable fleet, and it has for its size a very professional and impressive platform: its own hangar facilities and own maintenance operation. It can turn its hand to anything. That versatility will help us expand our customer base and in turn that will lead to an increase in the size of the RVL fleet.”
Land developer Harworth Group has made five appointments in the North of England and the Midlands.
The firm has appointed Richard Bousfield as director – head of income, a newly-created role with responsibility for growing and managing the company’s £232.3m income-producing portfolio across the UK, including new acquisitions, new pre-let direct developments and selling down its lower yielding assets.
He previously ran his own investment and strategic asset company and previously held Board Director positions at Aston Property Ventures and Praxis Real Estate. Bousfield has also been appointed as a full member of the Investment Committee.
Bousfield’s team has been further strengthened by the appointment of Andrea Morley who has been appointed as the associate director of business space. She has been given responsibility for managing Harworth’s £170m business space portfolio, managing over 130 tenants across its business park sites. Morley was previously property development manager at Clugston Estates and spent a number of years with Lidl (UK) as its acquisitions manager for the North of England and the Midlands.
Harworth’s Midlands Region has completed its management team by recruiting Matt Timmins as its new project manager. He joins Harworth following three years at St Modwen as a technical manager.
Timmins has responsibility for the delivery of key infrastructure works on Harworth’s major developments in the Midlands, including at the former Ironbridge Power Station in Shropshire.
Lisa Brooke has joined Harworth’s finance function as a finance business partner, with specific responsibility of supporting its three regional development teams. She was previously a financial planning analyst at Close Brothers Motor Finance and also worked as within PwC’s audit function in Yorkshire between 2015 and 2018.
Jane Thomson has joined Harworth’s communications & public affairs team in the newly created role of partnerships manager with responsibility for co-ordinating the company’s public funding applications across the UK. She was previously enterprise manager at the Canal & River Trust for over a decade.
