People: Nottingham College; WatchPilot
Nottingham College has appointed Lisa Wilson has its new group director of apprenticeships and employer services.
Wilson joins Nottingham College from RNN Group, where she was director of apprenticeships. In that role she oversaw the training of more than 11,000 people a year, including 2,000 apprentices, predominantly in the North Notts and South Yorkshire region.
She said: “We are Nottingham’s College, providing thousands of young people and adults with an opportunity to learn, grow and contribute to a thriving and exciting city, full of fantastic businesses and organisations. We are also the region’s largest college, and want to extend our hand to businesses across the East Midlands to support them in achieving their workforce development priorities.
“By combining innovative training solutions with the recruitment of quality apprentices, we are able to deliver the skills and talent businesses need to survive the turmoil that has gone by and to prosper in the future.
“This is an exciting time to be joining Nottingham College, and I am both thrilled and honoured to have this opportunity, at a time when apprenticeships and skills for our local and regional employers will be key to ‘building back better’ following the impact of COVID-19.”
Nicolas Hawke
Nottingham ecommerce watch specialist, WatchPilot, has appointed Nicolas Hawke as head of creative.
Hawke brings more than 25 years of creative experience to the role and previously spent 12 years at Time Products, where he was creative manager.
He said: “At WatchPilot, I create, plan and deliver a strategic vision for the business, ensuring that we produce engaging and inspiring content for the web, and social media. I’m involved in planning and creating attention-grabbing campaigns that help to guide the customer journey. The great thing about this role is that every day is different; one day, I can be creating content for a social media campaign and, the next day, I could be art directing a studio film shoot. Throughout all our content, I ensure that brand guidelines are always followed which helps to build and maintain a strong brand.
“At WatchPilot, it’s exciting to be part of something new. I love working with WatchPilot’s founders, Tim and Akbar, as their enthusiasm and passion for watches is at the heart of the business, and it is fantastic to be part of it.”
Tim Harrison, co-founder and director at WatchPilot, said: “We’re absolutely thrilled to have Nicolas on board. Nicolas brings with him a wealth of experience and we can already see the benefits that creating this new in-house position will garner to the expansion of the WatchPilot brand.”
