People on the Move: Deloitte; N Brown; Financial Stability Board; Health Innovation Manchester; Exchange Quay

From left: Claire Jolly, Dan Wright, Helen Chadwick, Kathie Haunton

Deloitte has made 15 senior promotions across its Manchester, Liverpool and Isle of Man offices, comprising five new partners and 10 directors.

The new partners are Helen Chadwick and Kathie Haunton in corporate tax, Dan Wright who works within the transaction services business, Claire Jolly in forensics, as well as Matt Bainbridge, who works in audit and assurance and leads the firm’s Isle of Man office.

Across the practice, the highest number of new directors are within audit and assurance, with Nick Graham, Raza Mian and Rob Arthur all being promoted.

There are two promotions in both tax and real estate, with Charlotte Mannia (indirect) and Gemma Marshall (corporate) in the former, and Eve Grant and Niall Alcock in the latter.

The remaining director promotions include James Millar in corporate finance advisory, Gemma Quinn in restructuring services, and Nicholas Fosh in risk advisory.

In addition, Michael Magnay, a partner in restructuring services, is returning to the North West practice, having spent three years with the firm’s Edinburgh office.

Across its three offices in the North West region, Deloitte employs in excess of 850 members of staff. This is planned to grow to more than 1,000 in the next three years.

Andy Westbrook, practice senior partner for Deloitte in the North West, said: “On the back of a very successful year to date, it is great that we are able to announce so many senior promotions.

“This is testament to the success we are having in the market, as well as the significant talent pool that exists within our business. My congratulations go to all those who have been promoted – each and every one is well deserved.

“As a firm, we are aiming to achieve gender parity at all levels in our organisation.

“We have set some clear targets to get there: to have a quarter of our partners being female by 2020, rising to 40% by 2030. Our 2019 female promotions in the North West are a positive step in the right direction.”

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N Brown Group has announced that Kenyatte Nelson will be joining the company as chief brand officer.

He will start today, Monday June 3, and will report directly into chief executive Steve Johnson.

Kenyatte Nelson

Kenyatte will lead the drive to strengthen othe Manchester-based online retailer’s brands, ensuring that they better resonate with its diverse customer base.

The group said he has an impressive track record in building compelling brands, with significant experience across the consumer and retail sectors including with P&G, Shop Direct Group as group marketing and creative director, and most recently with Missguided, as chief customer officer.

Steve Johnson said: “I am delighted to be welcoming Kenyatte to N Brown and I look forward to working with him as we deliver our digital, retail-led, customer centric strategy.”

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A Lancaster University professor has been appointed to a position in assessing how reforms to the world banking system have fared since the global financial crisis.

Professor of Finance, Vasso Ioannidou, will serve as an academic advisor to the Financial Stability Board’s evaluation of ‘too big to fail’ (TBTF) reforms.

Following the worldwide events of 2007/08, the G20 launched a comprehensive programme of financial reforms to increase the resilience of the global financial system, while preserving its open and integrated structure.

The changes affected systemically important banks (SIBs) deemed too important to national or global economic structures to be allowed to fail, putting pressure on governments to use public money to bail them out should that happen.

With the core reforms in place, the FSB has launched a systematic analysis of their effects.

Prof Vasso Ioannidou

The evaluation will assess whether they are reducing the systemic and moral hazard risks associated with SIBs, while also examining the broader effects of the reforms on the overall functioning of the financial system, and any unintended consequences that have arisen because of their introduction.

Prof Ioannidou is one of six academic advisors appointed by the FSB until the end of 2020 to help with the evaluation.

She will assist in the design of the analyses, data collection and use, and interpretation of the findings, taking part in meetings in New York and Basel with the team.

She said: “It is an honour to be selected for this role by the FSB.

“The too-big-to-fail reforms were brought in at the behest of the G20 to address the systemic risks associated with important financial institutions failing, and it is important that we evaluate whether they are achieving their intended objectives.”

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Guy Lucchi is set to join Health Innovation Manchester this month to lead on the organisation’s digital transformation programme across Greater Manchester’s £6bn devolved health and care system.

Guy is a digital leader with a proven track record in shaping and delivering large and complex digital health strategies and transformation programmes.

He has spent much of his career as a chief technology officer with global IT giant DXC Technology (merger of CSC and HP enterprise services), leading on digital healthcare and life sciences initiatives across the group.

Notably, he was the CTO for DXC’s product portfolio that has led to significant digitisation of administration and electronic patient record systems across much of the NHS. He was also instrumental in developing DXC’s global healthcare cloud strategy.

Health Innovation Manchester was formed in 2017 to accelerate the delivery of proven innovations across Greater Manchester’s devolved health and care system, to improve the health and wellbeing of the 2.8m population.

The organisation works across the health research, innovation and life sciences sectors, connecting researchers, industry and clinicians to transform care and outcomes for local people.

Guy Lucchi

Driving digital transformation of health and care services is a central plank of NHS England’s 10-year Long Term Plan announced in January, as well as Greater Manchester’s health and care prospectus and new model of public services unveiled in April by the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP) and Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA).

Guy said: “I passionately believe that building high quality and sustainable wellness, health and care services can only happen if we leverage the benefits of existing and emerging technology. This is not just about digitising existing services, the change required is much more fundamental.

“I am really looking forward to working with the Health Innovation Manchester team and colleagues across the city-region to maximise the full benefits of digital technology to drive better outcomes for the citizens of the place where I come from.”

Prof Ben Bridgewater, chief executive of Health Innovation Manchester, said: “Guy not only has deep technical and commercial expertise, he has considerable experience of lining up the business problems we need to solve with the art of the possible from digital approaches, as well as developing the people, processes and culture to enable technology to be fully optimised across large and complex systems.”

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A dedicated on-site tenant engagement manager has been appointed at Exchange Quay, the 435,000 sq ft office scheme in Salford Quays, as part of the development’s wider occupier engagement strategy.

Sadie O’Toole joins as assistant building manager working within managing agent CBRE’s project management FM team.

Sadie O’Toole

Sadie joins from Willis Towers Watson where she supported the regional facilities management function. She brings a wide range of facilities management and health and safety expertise to the new role, which will predominantly focus on rolling out the tenant engagement strategy overseen by CBRE and the marketing and placemaking team at DS Emotion.

Ekistics and asset manager Hunter REIM have been working with CBRE and DS Emotion to develop a long-term place activation strategy to enhance tenant engagement at the development in line with the integral role placemaking now plays in a development’s proposition, appeal, sense of belonging and community brand.

Sadie will co-ordinate the tenant engagement programme which follows on from the introduction of a host of new occupier facilities at Exchange Quay, including new retail and dining outlets, a children’s day nursery, a games room, as well as the recently-launched ICE concept which delivered 26,000 sq ft of Grade A offices and a café lounge bar.

Sadie will also support the planned events schedule which aims to connect with occupiers at the development.

She said: “I am very excited to join the CBRE team managing the Exchange Quay development and look forward to expanding my knowledge in this new chapter of my career. Facilities management is something that I have been passionate about for some time and I am eager to work closely with the diverse range of tenants based at Exchange Quay.

“My role will be very much on-site, building tenant relationships and supporting the wider management team in delivering the placemaking and events strategy to add value to the occupier base.”

Axel Waldecker, managing director Ekistics Property Advisors, said: “We are delighted to welcome Sadie to the team.

“Our long-term strategy for Exchange Quay is to further enhance the occupier experience and Sadie’s role will be integral in helping to build stronger bonds with both our existing and future tenants.

“Sadie will be instrumental in co-ordinating a programme of activities and events to engage with our occupiers and supporting the management function.”

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