Appointments: New role for former Blade; Stewarts Law appoint five; and more
FORMER reserve team captain Danny Wood is rejoining Sheffield Unied as the club’s new group sales executive.
Mr Wood led the reserve team at the age of just 17 and continues to play with Matlock Town in the EvoStick Premier League.
In his new role he will be working on new sales packages that give junior football clubs and similar organisations the chance to raise funds while having the chance to win a variety of prizes and incentives.
Mr Wood said: “It’s fantastic to be offered the opportunity to serve the Blades in a different way. This is an exciting time for the club and myself as I will be working with a wide cross section of groups on our new packages, which give young fans access to a host of unique experiences at Bramall Lane.”
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LITIGATION specialist Stewarts Law has made five appointments at its Leeds office.
Gabrielle Ross joins the firm as a solicitor in the clinical negligence department while Matthew Tighe takes up the role of solicitor in the commercial litigation department having completed his training with the firm.
Ms Ross has six years experience working in clinical negligence litigation at Irwin Mitchell and will specialise in catastrophic injury work at Stewarts Law.
Mr Tighe, vice-chairman of the Leeds Junior Lawyers Division, joined the firm’s London office before relocating to Leeds as a trainee solicitor.
The pair are joined by Conrad MacDonald, who has been taken on as a trainee solicitor, and Hana Tawfik and Carly Plant, who join as paralegals in the clinical negligence and commercial litigation departments respectively.
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A SHEFFIELD charity has appointed a new chairwoman and a new chief executive.
Beverley Webster and Patricia Mitchell have both recently joined the charity Neurocare, which supports the Neurosciences Department at Sheffield’s Royal Hallamshire Hospital.
The pair are lifelong school friends who met as pupils at Sheffield High School.
Ms Webster ran a Rotherham-based manufacturing company for over 20 years producing equipment for the mining and construction industries. As the first woman and youngest ever president of her sector trade association, she was awarded an OBE for services to the coal industry.
Having left the engineering sector she formed Prosperis, a firm of independent financial advisers. She has been involved for a number of years raising funds for local charities and was approached by Neurocare earlier this year to become the chairwoman of its board of trustees.
Ms Mitchell qualified as a lawyer and worked for a number of years as a partner specialising in commercial litigation with law firms in London and Bristol.
Following a career move as income generation manager for an Alzheimer’s charity, she recently relocated to Yorkshire and applied for the new post of chief executive of Neurocare.
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