Appointments: BDO boosts turnatound team ; Trio joins MIDAS board
THE Manchester office of acountants and business advisors BDO has strengthened its business restructuring team with the appointment of Alexander (Sandy) MacPherson as director – operational performance improvement.
Mr McPherson was previously director of private equity/M&A at Celerant Consulting, focusing on the performance improvement of private equity-backed ventures across the UK, Europe, Middle East and the USA.
Dermot Power, partner and head of business restructuring at the Manchester office of BDO said: “BDO’s business restructuring team has seen a huge growth in the size and complexity in the type of work it does particularly on the advisory side, helping north west businesses to work their way through very challenging times.
“Sandy’s appointment is a key acquisition for the firm which enhances our capabilities within the business restructuring offering.”
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MIDAS, the inward investment agency for Greater Manchester, has appointed three councillors to its board. They are Guy Harkin from Bolton, Dave Sweeton of Tameside and Dave Goddard, lader of Stockport council.
The board of the organisation is mostly made up of senior business people Led by chairman Michael Oglesby, founder of property company Bruntwood, the board includes; Keith Alderson, Co-operative Bank; Andrew Cliffe, Manchester Airports Group; Malcolm Edge of KPMG; Mike Blackburn, BT; John Clarke, Tesco; Professor Rod Coombs, University of Manchester; Paul Horrocks, Essential Communications; Gerry Yeung, Yang Sing Group of Restaurants and other councillors Sue Murphy (Manchester) and Michael Cornes (Trafford).
Michael Oglesby commented: “I’d like to welcome the new members of the MIDAS board. In these challenging times the work of our board in providing the very best private and public sector leadership for attracting inward and foreign investment projects to the Manchester city region and its ten boroughs has never been more important.
“I hope that the councillors will play an important and active role in continuing the good work of MIDAS as we seek to build on last year’s record results.”
