Trio step up at John Pye

Nottingham-headquartered national auction house John Pye & Sons has made three senior internal promotions; Alan Avery, commercial manager; Matt Ganner, head of IT; and Bruce Burton, financial controller, have all been promoted to the position of associate director.

Adam Pye, managing director at John Pye, said: “I am delighted to announce, on behalf of the John & Sons Ltd board the promotion of three senior members of our current management team to associate director. Matt Ganner head of IT, Bruce Burton, financial controller and Alan Avery commercial manager, will join the other associate directors of Paul Hird head of government & luxury, Mike Vitale Nottingham site manager and Charles Loake joint head of business assets.”

He added: “The business is moving rapidly and expanding almost monthly – we have just hit the £100m in sales in a year milestone. We know the business needs an effective forward-thinking senior management structure to oversee this growth and all three will be pivotal in helping us reach our goals.”