Appointments: Atteys CEO role for Glover; Barclays Corporate hires; and more
ATTEYS Solicitors has appointed Charles Glover as chief executive.
The former managing director of Sheffield-based marketing agency DigForFireDMG has joined the South Yorkshire legal firm, which has five offices, as a non lawyer chief executive.
The Legal Services Act allows lawyers and non-lawyers to share the management and control of a business providing legal services
Mr Glover has more than 20 years experience owning and running businesses, including marketing agency Paradigm which he merged with Scope Creative Marketing in 2003 to create DigForFire, which was sold to the AIM-listed Digital Marketing Group in 2006.
He will help Atteys to realise the opportunities presented by the Legal Services Act by helping it develop a range of innovative legal services and products that meet changing consumer and business demands.
“Charles is the ideal appointment to this role, following a rigorous recruitment process designed to help Atteys develop and expand its offer to clients in light of the Legal Services Act,” said Gill Knight, Atteys partner and head of personal injury.
“It is critical that the legal profession widens its approach and harnesses the best talent if it is to secure a profitable future. Charles has great financial acumen and a clear understanding of the opportunities and challenges that the legal sector faces.”
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BARCLAYS Corporate has added to its South Yorkshire team.
Paul Turner joins as a relationship director and will be responsible for larger corporate clients with a turnover in excess of £5m in the South Yorkshire region.
Turner, who previously worked for RBS, has extensive knowledge in the healthcare sector and prior to joining Barclays worked across South Yorkshire and the Midlands specialising in long term elderly care as well as primary care and private hospitals.
Andrew Marsh, corporate director at Barclays Corporate in South Yorkshire, said: “Recruiting talent from both within Barclays and externally is key to our expansion plans in South Yorkshire together with our move to St Paul’s Place, in the heart of Sheffield’s business district.”
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GRIPPLE, the Sheffield-based manufacturer of wire joiners for the construction industry, has hired a market researcher.
Sunaina Nadkarni recently graduated from Lancaster University Management School and before that gained two years’ experience in India as a market research analyst of retail express products for logistics company DHL.
Ms Nadkarni’s language skills will also be beneficial to Gripple, which has a fundamental principle of speaking to customers in their native language.
Currently, 14 major languages are covered by members of the 270-strong workforce.
