People: PWP; Quint; Seneca & more
HOUSING and development consultancy Project Development Workshop (PDW) has appointed Janet Coulthard as a sales co-ordinator to its Warrington team.
Coulthard will be responsible for the co-ordination of house sales on behalf of PDW’s housing association and local authority clients.
In her new role, she will be involved in every step of the buying process from dealing with initial sales enquiries to liaising with the buyers’ solicitors and mortgage advisers.
PDW also provides a completion and after sales service which Janet will also be responsible for.
Coulthard joined the consultancy from Gascoigne Halman Estate Agents after 18 months as a sales negotiator. Prior to that, she spent 30 years as a compliance manager in a regulated financial environment.
She said: “As a sales co-ordinator at PDW, I am able to bring skills from my previous jobs and apply them in a dynamic, people-focused company.
“There is a lot going on in the housing sector at the moment so it’s an exciting time to join PDW. There is a great team in place at the consultancy and I’m looking forward to developing my role.”
David Bethell, managing director at PDW, said: “We’re really looking forward to the year ahead and it’s great to start it off with new appointments within the team.
“I’m thrilled to have Janet as part of our growing team and we believe that her wealth of experience will be a real asset to our company.”
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UK fin-tech pioneer Quint has boosted its senior management team after luring three leading industry figures from the UK online gaming sector, as it continues to drive innovation in UK financial services.
Anthony Wong, formerly of Paddy Power, Seb Haack from Full-Tilt Poker and Edward Ross, formerly head of mobile apps at Sky Bet, have all been headhunted by Quint to join its growing team.
Macclesfield-based Quint recently rebranded from the Quintessential Finance Group was one of the first firms of its type to gain FCA Principal status as a Consumer Credit Firm.
Wong is a performance marketing specialist and joins the senior leadership team as group marketing director.
Haack has joined as international development director, bringing more than13 years of international development experience.
Ross has arrived as head of product, bringing a wealth of product and mobile app development experience , having overseen the management of multiple Sky Bet apps, which have generated revenues of $150m.
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SENECA Investment Managers, the multi-asset value investor based in Liverpool, has appointed Peter Smith and Peter Elston to its board.
Smith is head of policy strategy development at TISA, the financial services membership organisation working with UK political parties, European Parliament, Treasury, HMRC, DWP, The Pensions Regulator and the FCA, to enhance and improve savings and investment schemes to all UK citizens.
He will be a non-executive director, joining David Warnock, Steve Scott, Steve Charnock and chairman Ian Currie.
Elston has been promoted to the board an executive director, having joined the company in 2014. He retains his role as chief investment officer at the firm.
Seneca chief executive David Thomas said: “The addition of Peter Smith and Peter Elston to our Board strengthens an already powerful team.”
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SALE-based solicitor Phillip Rhodes at law firm Slater Heelis has become the first male in Manchester to become a fully qualified family mediator.
Mediation is a popular option for couples who separate because it can help reduce tension and hostility by allowing families to make decisions privately themselves rather than have decisions imposed on them by the courts.
Rhodes, associate at Slater Heelis, said: “Family mediation can be a more amicable and cost-effective route to reaching an early agreement than more traditional negotiations between solicitors or court proceedings.”
“Mediation is not a form of relationship counselling. It occurs after the relationship has already broken down and is a more sensible way for many people to agree what arrangements to make about finances, property and children.”
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THE N8 Research Partnership, which comprises eight northern universities, has announced appointed Laura Partridge as innovation and engagement manager.
She will focus on increasing the impact of N8 within the North and natiowide, establishing innovative collaborations between businesses and the N8 university partners, Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, and York.
Partridge has a decade’s worth of experience working across the higher education sector, and joins from Cities@Manchester, where she worked to bring together research across multiple areas and engage with a range of global, national and local stakeholders.
N8’s main areas of collaborative research include in urban and community transformation, and agri-food.
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