People: Payments provider boosts senior team; Trio of hires for planning consultancy; and more
Brighouse-based Yorkshire Payments has recruited two new relationship managers.
Mark Dickson and Adrian Smith join the business to work directly with both new and existing Yorkshire Payments clients. Their role will include building and maintaining relationships with clients and key personnel within customer companies.
Founder and managing director of Yorkshire Payments, James Howard, established Yorkshire Payments in 2013 with a vision to provide safe and secure payment solutions to a range of businesses across the region.
Dickson has had a number of senior roles in the retail and hospitality industries, including board level director at Hartwell Group, Northcliffe Group, JCT600, Co-operative Group, NCR & HD Brows.
Having worked in the payments services sector for a number of years, Smith has a wealth of industry experience from positions at PayZone and WorldPay.
Howard said: “To reinforce the typically Yorkshire approach to customer service, it is important to Yorkshire Payments to continue to grow the team in line with new clients that come on board.
“We want businesses to trust in us and feel safe and secure in the knowledge that they will get exactly the services they pay for.
“Mark and Adrian are invaluable additions to the team and will allow us to continue to provide clients across the region with outstanding levels of customer service and advanced industry knowledge.”
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Planning consultancy Peacock and Smith has made three appointments at its Leeds office in response to winning several projects.
Alicia Dawson joins as senior planner from WYG, Sarah Lowe joins as planner from Tunbridge Wells BC and Sarah Myers joins from Manchester University.
The trio will work on the new projects in the housing, retail, commercial and leisure sectors.
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Sheffield City Region is on the hunt for new LEP board members.
Four members of the board have reached the end of their three-year term and applications are being invited for the vacancies.
Sir Nigel Knowles, chair of the LEP board, said: “I’m tremendously grateful to our retiring members. They have given us a huge breadth of knowledge and depth of understanding of this region and its strategic economic needs. They have given their time and expertise most generously and we all have a great deal to thank them for.”
The board is looking for a three-year commitment from a new round of businesspeople prepared to give their time and expertise to advise and guide the executive, working closely with the region’s local authorities.
The retiring members are Simon Carr, MD of Henry Boot Construction; Deborah Egan, Arts Director; Paul Houghton, partner at Grant Thornton; and Chris Scholey, former chair of the Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Hospitals Foundation Trust.
