People: Cast UK; Savills; Pierce Business Advisory & more
SPECIALIST recruitment company Cast UK has appointed five new consultants to its head office in Manchester.
Emily Hardy, Patty Buwaj, Tessa Woodhead, Usman Hameed and Andrew Barrett have joined the company, which this year celebrates a decade of sourcing professional and managerial level talent in procurement, buying and merchandising, supply chain and logistics.
Hardy joins Cast UK as a graduate from Manchester Metropolitan University and will be working alongside Buwaj, recruiting supply chain and purchasing roles in the FMCG market in North London and Essex, while Buwaj will focus on South London, Kent and Surrey.
Woodhead will focus on sourcing buying and merchandising roles in London and the South. She has eight years of buying and merchandising expertise, working with London’s largest fashion retailers and studying at the London College of Fashion.
Hameed’s area of recruitment expertise will be transport, logistics, warehousing and freight forwarding.
Barrett will also work alongside Usman and brings sales experience from his role at CPM.
Wayne Brophy, founder and managing director of Cast UK, said: “We’re really pleased to welcome our five new team members who will help to take Cast UK forward and reinforce our expertise across the sectors, working with SMEs through to FTSE 500s. It’s been a solid year for growth and we look forward to continued success in 2016.”
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SAVILLS has announced the appointment of director James Evans as head of its Manchester office, with effect from January 1.
He will workalongside Savills Northern Regional head Peter Mallinder, taking over the role from Patrick Joynson who has been at the firm’s Manchester helm for the last five years and remains a senior director in the business.
During this time the office has expanded from 120 to 200 staff and moved into a new flagship office in the city at Belvedere, 12 Booth Street.
Evans joined Savills in 2006 and since then has worked alongside Joynson within the office agency team advising on high profile instructions in the region including First Street, Piccadilly Place and One St Peters Square.
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JIMMY King has been promoted to the board of directors at Pierce Business Advisory and Accountancy Group, based in Lancashire.
As well as helping to steer the way ahead for North West practice, King will further develop his own client portfolio and continue to provide advice to existing clients.
His promotion is the second senior appointment at Pierce in recent weeks.
Tom Wilkinson, who has been promoted to associate director, joined Pierce in 2006 and became a fully qualified chartered accountant in 2011.
He works principally with director Mark Maden-Wilkinson managing a number of clients as well as having a sub-portfolio of his own clients.
Pierce managing director Paul Warren said: “Developing the emerging talent that will drive Pierce forward is of vital importance to us and something we take great pride in. It means that Pierce’s clients will always benefit from a team that is both experienced and in tune with the latest challenges and opportunities.”
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DTM Legal has strengthened its team across the North West with two new appointments.
Philip Whitehurst will join the firm as a partner in the Corporate and Commercial Team in its Liverpool office, while Lucy Nelson joins the Chester office as a trainee solicitor, completing her first seat in the Dispute Resolution Team.
Whitehurst joins from Hillyer McKeown, where he led its Corporate and Commercial Department. Prior to this, he worked as an associate at DWF in Liverpool.
Nelson has worked at law firms across the North West, including Slater and Gordon in Manchester and Flint Bishop LLP in Derby, where she has gained a wide range of litigation experience as a paralegal in clinical negligence and commercial law.
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MANCHESTER-based app developer Apadmi has appointed a new commercial director.
Karl Gilbank will run commercial team, responsible for managing company growth, identifying new opportunities and advising senior management on new markets to explore.
Gilbank brings with him more than 20 years’ experience within the mobile sector.
Nick Black, co-founder and director at Apadmi, said: “We are delighted to have Karl on board. He has displayed an impressive level of experience and expertise and his passion clearly lies within the mobile technology sector. We look forward to him using his natural enthusiasm and extensive knowledge of the commercial landscape to drive results and help us to continue to grow.”
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MLP Law, based in Altrincham, Greater Manchester has two senior staff members, following a period of growth.
Richard Holmes joined the firm from Freeths to lead the property department, while Steve Hartley has been appointed from Pearson Solicitors to head up the corporate and commercial team.
Since joining MLP in August, Holmes has already expanded its property department and now leads a team of eight staff members.
Hartley spent 12 years working in city centre and national commercial law firms, before taking up his position at MLP Law. His responsibilities at the firm will see him build on the foundations already in place within the corporate and commercial team, as well as improving and expanding the department.
Stephen Attree, managing partner at MLP Law, said: “Both have a wealth of experience in their specialist areas and we are looking forward to seeing what they can bring to their teams and how they can further expand the property and corporate and commercial departments.”
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MILLSON Associates, the architecture, interior design, building surveying and project management consultancy with offices in Manchester and London, has bolstered its management team with an internal promotion and a director-level appointment.
Ryan Brookes now takes up a director-level role at the company. It comes following an 11-year tenure with Millson which has seen him lead the company’s successful residential master planning and design arm, an area he has expanded fourfold in recent years.
He said: “Working at Millson has afforded me some wonderful experiences – culminating in this promotion.
“This is a great opportunity for me to strategically input into the future of the business, whilst continuing to work with some of the North’s most successful builders and developers and to strengthen our reputation for innovative design and technical excellence.”
