People: SHIFT Marketplace; Fladgate; Parsons Chartered Accountants; and more
Online marketplace specialists, SHIFT Marketplace, has appointed former Amazon partner manager, Kyle Daniel, as growth director to drive the global expansion of its overall client base.
Within his new role at the Leeds-based company, Daniel will draw on his extensive experience working across successful, high-growth brands to maximise client revenues, increase brand awareness and power international territory expansion.
SHIFT Marketplace’s co-founder and managing director, Steven Berke, said: “Kyle has a proven track record of scaling brands to multiple millions in revenue, whilst maximising performance across a multitude of Amazon territories.
“His ability to grow profits through high quality, strategic brand analysis, product range development and territory expansion is second-to-none, and we’re excited to welcome him to the team as our own and our clients’ businesses continue to experience growth in the digital retail space.”
SHIFT Marketplace’s model is based on the firm working in partnership with clients, directly aligning the success of its own business with theirs. As such, the team is laser focussed on expansion and growth, with Kyle’s appointment further strengthening this mission.
Tom Bagnall, SHIFT Marketplace co-founder and commercial director, added: “Kyle brings incredible commercial insights and valuable insider Amazon knowledge to our business, along with deep experience of the wider ecommerce industry, allowing us to deliver the highest possible level of analysis and recommendations for account optimisation and growth.
“The world-class expertise of our team is what sets us apart in our industry. Kyle is a perfect example of the calibre of people our clients can expect to work with when they partner with us.”
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Joel Seager has joined Fladgate as a partner in the dispute resolution practice. Seager has over 15 years’ experience acting on a wide range of complex, high-value international and domestic disputes in both court and arbitration proceedings. His appointment further consolidates Fladgate’s reputation as a highly ranked mid-market commercial disputes firm.
His practice incorporates a broad range of disputes with a focus on commercial litigation including partnership disputes, professional negligence, contentious insolvency, and civil fraud.
His arrival along with that of 7 other partners in the firm over the last 12 months supports the progress of Fladgate’s three year business strategy. The firm’s focus is on accelerating its successful model of providing a highly rated* personal, agile and enterprising service to some of the world’s leading and fastest growing businesses and ‘trend initiator’ brands as well as UHNWI’s and their advisors.
Grant Gordon, executive partner at Fladgate, said: “Joel’s arrival is great news for the development of the firm. Joel brings further experience in both litigation and international arbitration to our highly rated disputes team. We are building out a breadth of services for business and private clients that have fast moving, complex challenges. Joel is the third partner to join us in contentious space since January, adding further weight to that practice in its breadth and depth.”
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L-R: Lisa Butterworth, Richard Walker and Jamie Kelly
Heads of tax advisory, audit and marketing have joined the fast-growing team at Parsons Chartered Accountants, bringing the total head count to 36. The new appointments support the expansion of the firm’s portfolio of services and its growing Yorkshire client base.
Richard Walker joins Parsons as head of audit, bringing over 10 years of experience in the field. He is responsible for maintaining high quality audit standards, nurturing client relationships and leading a specialist team in servicing the growing client base.
Jamie Kelly is appointed as head of taxation, managing the firm’s established tax compliance service which guides clients through their annual tax returns and self-assessments. He is also responsible for the firm’s tax advisory service, assisting clients in navigating the diverse taxation landscape from Corporation Tax through to Inheritance Tax, and beyond.
Marketing manager, Lisa Butterworth, joins Parsons with almost 20 years of experience in the commercial, third and public sectors. She is the firm’s first in-house marketer and is responsible for establishing a marketing strategy to promote the expanded service portfolio and support the growth of the client base.
Commenting on the appointments, managing partner Ian Parsons said: “Increasingly, clients are demanding not only assured financial compliance from us but also our expertise in seeing beyond the numbers to advise them on the overall financial health of their businesses, and to guide their growth strategy. These new appointments give us the in-house skills to comprehensively address that demand and add value for our existing clients, whilst also growing our client base and actively promoting our brand across Yorkshire.”
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Will Beesley & Nathan Stocks
Sheffield and Peak District based architectural practice, Peak Architects, has taken on two new recruits as the company experiences further growth across multiple sectors.
Will Beesley & Nathan Stocks, join the multidisciplinary practice following a record year of growth, despite the challenging environment. The pair will support the team on the firm’s latest projects, ranging from general housing schemes to mixed use developments and industrial to leisure & hospitality projects.
Beesley studied at The University of Sheffield before gaining experience at practices specialising in the healthcare, education and heritage sectors.
Stocks’s work experience spans the last five years, principally across prestigious residential and heritage schemes, with an impressive track record in securing planning consents, an area that Peak Architects prides itself on also across multiple authorities.
Paul Holden, director, said: “We are thrilled to welcome Will and Nathan as we are involved in a range of exciting and innovative projects across the Sheffield City Region and beyond. They bring great talent, a fresh energy and agility to the team which means we’re now even better placed to respond to the demands of the thriving construction industry.”
These new appointments follow the recent recruitments of director, Patrick Arends and technologist, Oliver Glaves, taking the team to fifteen strong.
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Optimum Finance has appointed Paul Green as the new regional director for the North, having previously held business development positions at RBS Invoice Finance.
Green’s knowledge and experience will allow the specialist financier to offer products greatly aligned to meet the needs of the unique northern economy. The Office for National Statistics recognizes the North of England as having one of the highest percentages of high growth businesses in the UK and Optimum are keen to support this community with funding options that can follow businesses’ growth trajectories.*
Chief commercial officer, Lynn-Marie Jameson, said “We already service many clients in the North of England and Paul’s arrival will give us the tools necessary to spread our excellent funding solutions even wider. Invoice finance is an underused solution perfect for both well established and fast growing B2B businesses and we want as many companies as possible to be able to take advantage of this. I already know Paul will be a great addition and I’m delighted to welcome him to the team.”
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