On the move: the latest East Midlands hires
IMA Architects, specialists in industrial and commercial architecture, has announced three senior promotions and two new staff appointments.
Ben Hall, who has been with the company for 18 years has been promoted to managing director.
In this role, he will oversee daily operations, manage client projects across the UK, and lead the 20+ team.
Joe Travers has been promoted to director alongside Ian McCann who remains as director, while Jack Mellor steps into the role of associate director.
Both will continue to manage client relationships, deliver projects, and support business development.
IMA has also appointed Alanah Miles as an architectural technologist and Jeremiah Olatiilu as a Part 2 architectural assistant.
Hall said: “It’s a real privilege to take up the position of managing director at IMA. Since joining in 2007, I have worked in all elements of the business from being a junior to now being MD. To take the helm to help IMA navigate its next chapter is an exciting opportunity for me and the business and something I am immensely proud of. Congratulations to my colleagues Joe Travers and Jack Mellor for well-deserved promotions which will further strengthen our senior team.
“We are excited to welcome our new team members too, with Alanah and Jeremiah being brought on board to support the team with project delivery.”
A housing developer has strengthened its team with the internal appointments of three directors at its headquarters in Derby.
Miller Homes East Midlands has promoted Aaron Grainger to land director, Emma Weston to sales director and James O’Halloran to commercial director.
The new positions for each of the three directors come as a reward for their combined 19 years of service to the housebuilder.
Aaron Grainger, Emma Weston and James O’Halloran
Grainger said: “Since joining the team at Miller Homes East Midlands in 2021, I’ve been fortunate to work with a great group of people who have assisted me in taking on the position of land director, of which I’m very proud. We are ambitiously reaching for new goals in 2025, building on our successes throughout 2024 and creating further momentum in the land market by acquiring new sites to contribute towards our regional and wider group growth plans.”
Weston joined Miller Homes in 2015 and has taken the role of sales director, having most recently held the position of head of sales for the East Midlands region.
She said: “We have a very exciting year ahead of us at Miller Homes East Midlands with the launch of new developments near Loughborough and Derby joining our existing roster of sites across Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Newark.
“The sales team is well established in the East Midlands region and we’re very proud of the consistency we’ve shown as a group in recent years, during at times a turbulent housing market, so we feel very well set to lead the team moving forward through 2025 and beyond.”
Derby resident James O’Halloran has been promoted to commercial director, after nearly 12 years working in the housing industry.
He said: “This opportunity to take the position of commercial director is one I’m particularly proud to take on and coincides with wider team changes as we look to bolster our senior management team. I’ve been working at Miller Homes East Midlands for over eight years and can see every single day the drive from our team to deliver a best-in-class result to our customers through our product and our service.”
Tom Roberts, regional operations director at Miller Homes East Midlands said: “We are extremely pleased to reward the excellence of Aaron, Emma and James with their respective promotions, which ultimately strengthens our senior management group and continues to add years of experience to our ever-growing team at Miller Homes East Midlands.
“The ethos within the business has always been to reward individual and collective excellence and to retain our best staff, grow together and achieve results for our customers and Miller Homes. One way of achieving this is to build a team over time, generate the experience and understanding of a great group of people and harness their expertise.
“I’d like to personally thank Aaron, Emma, James and all our incredible team at Miller Homes East Midlands for their dedication and efforts as we look ahead to another ambitious year of sustained growth for the region.”
