People: Advisory firm appoints corporate finance director; Specialist hire for planning consultancy; and more

Planning consultancy Pegasus Group has boosted it team by appointing minerals and waste specialist Chris Jarvis.

Jarvis has significant experience of managing applications for minerals and waste development, and also extensive experience of the energy industry including energy from waste facilities and the provision of high voltage energy infrastructure.

He has successfully secured planning permission for a range of minerals and waste related developments including the extraction of clay to ensure a supply of bricks to York Handmade Brick Co, new transfer stations in Green Belt locations and green waste composting facilities.

Alongside this work, Jarvis has also secured consent for the construction and decommissioning of utilities infrastructure including the construction of a new overhead line over the River Tees and the closure of the Victorian Woodhead Railway Tunnels in the Peak District National Park.

Leeds executive director Chris Calvert said: “We are delighted to welcome Chris Jarvis to our team here in Leeds. He brings an abundance of minerals and waste experience that really strengthens our existing planning and environmental teams perfectly, who already do some work within this sector.”

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Richard Townsend has been recruited as a corporate finance director in Dow Schofield Watts’ Yorkshire and North East office.

Townsend, who joins from Lloyds Banking Group, brings 30 years experience working in commercial and corporate banking and dealing with SMEs through to mid-market companies and FTSE 100 PLCs. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

His senior roles across the Yorkshire and the Humber have given him considerable experience in leading complex multi-bank financing deals and syndicated loans through to working capital and asset-based facilities. He also has experience of raising debt for clients through US private placements and the high-yield bond market and providing banking facilities for clients undertaking IPOs.

Townsend has assisted many businesses with acquisitions or a change in ownership, including MKM Building Supplies, Willerby Holiday Homes, DFS and Cranswick, and worked with a range of private equity houses and institutional debt funds. He has extensive knowledge and contacts in the manufacturing, food and drink, retailing, caravan and leisure, construction and building materials, TMT and business services sectors.

This is the second senior appointment to DSW’s Yorkshire & North East office in the last month. Sophie Colloby, one of Yorkshire’s leading financial due diligence specialists with a career spanning almost 20 years, joined the transaction services team in April from EY.

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Access Intelligence, the supplier of Software-as-a-Service solutions for communications and reputation management, has announced that David Lowe, who has been a non-executive director of the company for the last nine years, will be resigning as a director in July to spend more time with his family.

The board said it intends to appoint a further independent non-executive director at the “earliest opportunity”.

Michael Jackson, chairman of Access Intelligence, said: “I’d like to thank David for his support and advice over the past nine years, his positive contribution has been highly valued by the board and team at Access Intelligence.”