People: Senior promotions at Colliers; Director hire for £90m turnover fit-out firm; and more

Colliers International’s Leeds office has made two senior promotions.

Following her relocation from Colliers’ London retail agency team to Leeds in 2016, Olivia Hughes has been promoted to associate director and will continue to provide strategic property advice to national retailers and landlords in Yorkshire and across the UK.

Meanwhile, Gavin Foxton from Colliers’ project and building consultancy team has risen from the position of senior surveyor to associate director. Having joined the agency in 2016 as part of Colliers’ acquisition of building consultancy specialist, Bollingbrook, Foxton also began his career with Colliers in London, relocating to lead the firm’s project management team in the North of England, for which he splits his time between the Leeds and Manchester offices.

Greg Styles, head of Colliers International in Leeds, said: “These promotions are truly well deserved and I’d like to personally congratulate Olivia and Gavin for the hard work and dedication they have shown in reaching these personal career milestones.

“At Colliers, we place great importance on developing from within and these promotions are testament to the increasing breadth and depth of talent available to our valued clients throughout the Yorkshire & Humberside region and beyond.”

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Leeds fit-out firm Morris & Spottiswood has appointed a strategic development director to help deliver an ambitious 10-year growth plan.

Viv Sutherland will be responsible for driving a long-term strategy to expand the firm’s client base with a focus on corporate sectors and national framework agreements.

Sutherland brings a broad range of experience across marketing, sales, business development, commercial positioning and operations roles for firms including Hewlett Packard, Scottish Widows, Lloyds TSB and Matalan.

Morris & Spottiswood’s turnover is around £90m with a workforce of 390.

Morris & Spottiswood chief executive officer Jon Dunwell said the appointment comes at a pivotal moment for the firm with turnover projected to break the £100million barrier for the first time in the next 12 months.

“The introduction of a new strategic development director is an important step forward as we look to build on strong performance over the last two years,” said Dunwell. “Viv will help map out our strategy and business development agenda. We have identified major opportunities within our framework client base and through geographical expansion which we are keen to capitalise on.”

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Leeds based digital marketing agency Parallax has appointed Phil Millward as head of design.

Millward has been with the company nearly three years prior to the promotion as a web designer, brand expert and illustrator.

In that time, he’s worked on some of the agency’s most prestigious projects for clients such as cap hpi, Leeds Golf Centre and the award-winning interactive quiz game, Topple Trump.

Parallax director Andy Fitch said: “Phil has already grown so naturally into his new role – we knew immediately we’d made a great decision asking him to lead the team.”