People: Housing association welcomes new chief exec; Advisory firm announces trio of appointments; and more

Nick Atkin has been appointed as the new chief executive of Yorkshire Housing.

Atkin is currently group chief executive of Halton Housing and takes over from Mervyn Jones who is retiring at the end of December.

Yorkshire Housing owns and manages 18,000 homes across the region and provides a range of services to help its customers to live independently in their own homes.

The organisation is on course to provide more than 3,000 new homes by 2021.

Atkin said: “Yorkshire Housing has a strong reputation for delivering homes and the quality of its services. The transformation programme will revolutionise how the organisation works as well as enhancing the services customers receive.

“I’m delighted to play my part in that success story and to also be returning to my Yorkshire roots.”

Will Lifford, Yorkshire Housing board chair, added: “It’s great to have Nick on board. He has a great track record having grown the business significantly at Halton and transforming its customer services through the use of digital technology, so that 90% of customer-generated transactions are now delivered online.

“With our own transformation programme and our ambitious new homes programme, he’s joining us at an exciting time.”

Atkin takes up his new role in early 2019.

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Advisory firm Dow Schofield Watts has announced two new appointments and a promotion at its Yorkshire and North East office.

Alex Hill joins the Transaction Services team from KPMG, where he worked on a wide variety of clients ranging from manufacturing to constructing and retail with revenue typically ranging between £40m to £100m.

Bibin Johnson joins the Corporate Finance team from PwC, and has worked with clients in the industrial, manufacturing and retail sectors. He studied Finance at Queen’s University Belfast where he also completed a placement year at Morgan Stanley.

In addition, Paul Herriott has been promoted to Director and co-owner in the Corporate Finance team.

Herriott joined Dow Schofield Watts in 2013 from EY and has been involved in many of the firm’s deals in the region including the sale of Park Leisure 2000, the investment in The Feel Good Group by Perwyn and the sale of The Bridge IT to Morson Group.

Sophie Colloby, Transaction Services Partner, said: “We are delighted to welcome Alex to the team. With 15 completions for the Yorkshire Transaction Services team so far in 2018 and a strong pipeline, he joins us at a really exciting time for the business.”

Roger Esler, who heads up the Corporate Finance team, added: “It’s fantastic to be joined by such great talent as we grow our business in the region. Paul is an example of a professional that has thrived and excelled in this environment and has made a considerable contribution to the firm over the last five years.”

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Stada Video, the Wakefield-based content marketing agency, has announced two new appointments.

Stada have recently recruited Tony Shepherd and Aisling Corbett.

With over 30 years’ experience, Shepherd heads up the design department and will be responsible for creating design content for digital, video, animation, print and branding for our clients.

Corbett will focus on digital marketing by looking after internal and external social media, copy, blogging, PR and other digital related marketing activity.

Danny Lacey, CEO and founder of Stada Video, said: “Finding the best local talent is one of the hardest things in growing a business and we work tirelessly in our recruitment efforts. Tony and Aisling will play an important part in our expansion plans in the coming years.”

Stada Video is expanding with additional services including design, social media, PR, offline, paid media and more. All complementing its popular video production service.