Appointments: Two new partners at BLG; Industry heavyweight joins CTS board
LAW firm Barlow Lyde & Gilbert has appointed two new partners in its Manchester office.
The new partners are Dene Rowe, who although not a lawyer, is managing partner of the office, and Chris Murray, a personal injury defendant specialist.
Mr Rowe joined BLG in 2010 as operations director before his appointment this year as office managing partner.
Chris Murray is often involved in high profile cases, including the seminal occupiers’ liability case, Tomlinson v Congleton Borough Council, in which he successfully defended Congleton and Cheshire Borough Councils.
The Manchester duo were among nine partnership promotions. Senior partner Simon Konsta said: “The size and spread of this year’s promotions underlines our commitment to our core markets and our desire for international growth. They also reflect the positive performance of all of our practice areas in 2010/2011, and substantially increased profitability for the firm over the last financial year.”
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IT sector heavyweight Bryan Kinsella has joined the board of fast-growing Manchester company Cloud Technology Solutions.
Mr Kinsella, global chief information officer for Rentokil Initial, a £2.5bn turnover group, has become a non-executive director at CTS, which is a Google Enterprise Partner.
In his role at Rentokil he is responsible for the roll out of the world’s largest implementation of Google Apps to 35,000 employees across 50 countries.
He said: ““The company is a clear leader in the UK and abroad in terms of its migration tool set; moving users from GroupWise email systems to Google Apps in the Cloud. I’m pleased to be joining the company as it embarks upon ever more complicated projects with large enterprises to help them achieve true migration to the Cloud.”
Steve Kaye, chief executive of Cloud Technology Solutions comments; “Bryan has all the qualities I admire of a business savvy executive with great vision and fantastic execution skills.”
