Appointments: Moorehouse’s Brewery; Santander; Taylor Patterson & more

INDEPENDENT North West brewery Moorhouse’s, has strengthened its senior team with the key appointment of Mark Boardman as national accounts controller.

With 30 years’ experience in the brewing and drinks industry, Mr Boardman joins the Burnley company from Daniel Thwaites of Blackburn where he was national trade manager. With Thwaites, Mark grew sales both in the UK and in export markets, including the US.

The appointment comes as the famous ‘Pendle Witches’ brewery celebrates the five million-pints-a-year milestone for its two-year-old £4.2m brewing complex, which trebled former brewing capacity to more than 1,000 brewer’s barrels a week.

With Moorehouse’s Mr Boardman ill now play a key role in growing business both across the UK for cask-conditioned-ale and with bottled and keg beer exports in Europe, Asia, China, the US and Canada.

Managing director David Grant said: “We are now ready for the next level of our development as a major independent UK brewer. It is crucial that we build on our huge investment in the new brewery and grow business both with national UK pub companies and abroad. Mark has the knowledge and experience to play an invaluable role in achieving these objectives.”

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SANTANDER Corporate & Commercial has appointed Andy Gibson as its new relationship director for north Cumbria.

Based at the bank’s corporate business centre in Carlisle,  Mr Gibson will be responsible for building new customer relationships as the bank looks to expand further into the region.

Mr Gibson joins a 40-strong team in North East and Cumbria from Royal Bank of Scotland and has 12 years experience working in the region.

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LANCASHIRE financial advisory group, Taylor Patterson, has expanded its team with a hat-trick of appointments.

Karen Stettner, Tegan Millington and Michael Beal have all joined the Preston firm, strengthening its technical and marketing functions.

Louise Potter, director at Taylor Patterson, said: ““Karen brings plenty of experience to the team, and by recruiting graduates such as Tegan and Michael, we hope to harness fresh talent within Lancashire and grow our own people to fulfil the skills required by the business today and in the future.”

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REGIONAL social housing procurement consortium, Procure Plus, has appointed Peter Train to the new  role of apprentice and trainee development manager for Cumbria and Lancashire.

Mr Train, who joins from Cumbrian Constabulary, will oversee the day-to-day running of the consortium’s training programmes in Cumbria and Lancashire, and drive local skill development opportunities throughout Procure Plus’ work with social housing providers.

Commenting on his new role the experienced training consultant said: ” am passionate about finding sustainable solutions to the skills deficits in the UK, and I’m looking forward to working closely with our housing providers and framework providers to continue to bring real value to the communities in which we operate.”

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INDUSTRIAL IT company SolutionsPT has appointed Wayne Ashworth to a new role focused on opportunities in the automation industry.

Mr Ashworth is now a product manager at the Cheadle-based company. He has responsibility for industrial communications, encompassing industrial IT security and mobile.