Appointments: Opera North, WSP; The Floow
PROFESSIONAL services consultancy WSP has made a number of appointments as it looks to secure further contracts in Yorkshire’s environment and engineering sectors.
The environment team in Leeds is currently working on a number of high profile projects across the country – including a feasibility and options appraisal report on two former landfill sites as part of the Western Growth Corridor – a £250m development in Lincoln.
Jordan Mayes joins the team as senior engineer in acoustics, having previously managed the assessment of construction noise for the proposed works at Euston Station, as part of the HS2 Environmental Statement.
Brandon Waddington has begun a three-year apprenticeship, also in WSP Leeds’s environment team – specialising in land restoration and ground engineering – putting him on track to achieving his life-long wish to be an engineer.
Ecologist Philip Dutt and Michal Lukianowicz have also joined the team.
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TELEMATICS expert The Floow has expanded its work force and appointed six new members of staff to the team following business growth and a recent investment from the Direct Line Insurance Group.
The Sheffield-headquartered company, which produces telematics systems on behalf of a range of leading insurers and motor clubs, recently received a 15% equity increase investment from the Direct Line Insurance Group – set aside to accelerate the development of its analytics.
The newest recruits include Android developer Andrew Peir’s, system administrator Bartosz Debski and developer analyst Dr Daniel Moyo, as well junior web developer Arran Scott. These appointments follow the arrival of data analyst Luke Willis, Java developer Carl Ibbotson and junior web developer Joshua Obaro, who all joined the organisation during the summer.
Aldo Monteforte, CEO and co-founder of The Floow, said: “We are delighted to welcome so many new faces to our team.
“The expansion of the team will support our global reach to a host of blue chip insurance firms worldwide and allow us to continue our research into the methods of capturing and analysing data.”
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PAUL Lee has been elected the new chairman of the board of trustees for Opera North.
Born in Manchester and educated at Manchester Central Grammar School, Lee read Law at Clare College, Cambridge. He joined the Manchester law firm Addleshaw Sons and Latham in 1970, becoming a partner there in 1973 and managing partner in 1991. He led the firm through two mergers, becoming senior partner of Addleshaw Booth and Co in 1997 and subsequently Addleshaw Goddard in 2003. He retired from partnership with the firm in October 2013, having been a partner there for just over 40 years.
He holds company directorships in public and private companies and in 2009 he was appointed by the secretary of state for the department of culture, media and sport as chairman of the Horserace Betting levy board.
Lee has previously held various directorships in both public and private companies, including, until Christmas 2007, directorship of the Yorkshire Building Society, where for some time he was deputy chairman.
He said: “I am delighted to have been appointed chairman of this magnificent company. It is a privilege, an honour and a pleasure to be back on the board. I have long admired Opera North’s work, which goes from strength to strength – it is a company not important merely to Yorkshire, but also to the region, the nation and internationally.”
