Appointments: IoD, Future Life Wealth Management, Carter Jonas, Pure
AN ambassador for South Yorkshire for the Institute of Directors has been appointed.
Derek Carpenter has joined the organisation. He is the owner of a sales and marketing business and has previously worked in a chemicals business, Enviro Tech Europe.
He qualified as a Chartered Marketer and served as the SME Ambassador for Yorkshire and the North East on behalf of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Mr Carpenter said:”Business has seen me travel the world and settle in a number of places but if roots are where you feel at your best and at home then Barnsley has become that for me. I have come to love the town because of the people and because of their sense of hospitality, they have taken to me”.
“My feeling is that South Yorkshire is at its best when they work together. It’s often felt that South Yorkshire is too Sheffield-centric and I hope to create a more even handed approach to giving support.”
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FINANCIAL planner Tracey Bromley has joined Sheffield-based Future Life Wealth Management.
Ms Bromley joins the business from her client director role for Heartwood Wealth Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Handelsbanken, where she focused on South and West Yorkshire.
Tracey started her career at HSBC and has also worked for the private bank Coutts and J P Morgan.
Future Life is based in Renishaw and offers a financial planning service to generators of wealth, typically business owners, executives and professionals, and also to receivers of wealth, such as inheritors, divorcees, widows and retirees
Managing director, Jillian Thomas, who is also president of Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, said: “Tracey has the experience and calibre we need to continue to provide excellent services to our clients,” said Jillian.
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PROPERTY consultant Carter Jonas has appointed a marketing co-ordinator Sam King and new homes co-ordinator Katie Weldon to the team.
Ms Weldon has been promoted to the role having held the position of marketing co-ordinator at Carter Jonas for the past two and half years.
Prior to this, she worked for a specialist recruitment agency before making the move into property. She will support new homes manager Anne Haggas across an extensive portfolio of projects across Yorkshire including The Old Police Station in Harrogate and the Side Beck Grange development in Addingham for Mulgrave Properties.
Sam King joins Carter Jonas as the new marketing co-ordinator.
Tony Wright, partner and head of residential at Carter Jonas said: “We are delighted to welcome Sam to the team. Her enthusiasm, passion and eagerness to learn will be a welcome addition to the office.
“We also congratulate Katie on her promotion to new homes co-ordinator. Katie has proved an invaluable member of the residential team and we wish her all the luck in her new role within the business.”
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LEEDS marketing agency, PURE, has expanded its PR division with the appointment of Cara Dixon.
Ms Dixon join PURE’s PR team, which was set up at the end of 2014, after a number of new business wins. She will be working with PR director Leanne Bayston.
She has joined PURE’s PR department as an account manager, following stints at other Leeds-based agencies, including Beattie Communications and Brand8.
Leanne Bayston, PR director at PURE, said: “The agency as a whole is experiencing rapid growth at the moment, and the PR department in particular is expanding at a profound rate. The PR department was set up in response to demand from our existing clients but it has become a successful entity in itself.
“Cara brings a wealth of experience with her and will be an important part of helping us to grow the PR department within 2016. Our turnover in 2015 exceeded our expectations and we have ambitious plans to double this in 2016.”
