Following the success of the inaugural South West PA of the Year Awards last year, Bristol Business News and its sister titles including the recently-launched WestBusinessNews magazine, have again teamed up with prestigious Ston Easton Park Hotel, near Bath, to stage the South West PA of the Year Awards...
Mandy Rose, the producer of award-winning digital media initiatives including the BBC’s ground-breaking Video Nation project has been appointed as director of UWE Bristol’s Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC). The centre, in Bristol’s Watershed, brings together art and design, computer science, cultural and media studies to explore how people...
Yvette Morcombe, a conveyancing solicitor with more than 20 years’ experience, has become a partner at specialist property law firm Hoffman Male and will run its newly-opened Bristol office. Yvette, pictured, has worked in residential and commercial property since qualifying as a solicitor in 1993. She has worked with...
Former rugby league forward Lee Crooks has become the latest high-profile sportsman to join expanding health and protection specialists APRIL UK as a specialist sports protection advisor. The former Great Britain international, pictured, played for many of the country’s top rugby league outfits and was also general manager at Featherstone...
Thomas Sheppard, managing partner at Bath-based law firm Thrings, is to move to the newly-created role of executive chairman. Simon Holdsworth, head of the firm’s company commercial team, is to take over as managing partner. As part of the changes Thomas will lead the transformation of the firm’s personal...
HSBC has strengthened its West corporate team based in Bristol with the appointment of Georgina Garrett and Veryan Young as senior corporate banking managers. Both roles have a strong emphasis on business development and HSBC is keen to talk to West businesses turning over £30m plus about their growth...
Bristol-based Edge Tax Consultancy has recruited Lyndsey Chivers as marketing manager to help further increase the growth of the firm. Lyndsey, pictured, joins Edge with more than 15 years’ professional marketing experience having previously worked for accountants Solomon Hare (now Smith & Williamson), Grant Thornton and BDO. She will...
Bristol Music Trust, the organisation which manages Bristol’s iconic Colston Hall entertainment venue, has appointed two high-profile individuals from the arts and industry to its board. Andrew Nisbet and Sir Brian McMaster bring with them extensive experience and, along with the existing board members, will continue to develop the...
Burges Salmon, the Bristol-based law firm, has made up three new partners in this year’s promotions round, taking its total number of partners to 79. The promotions reflect continued growth in the firm’s energy and environment-related work, plus an increasing emphasis on work in international markets. The new partners...
West law firm Foot Anstey has made three senior promotions. Commercial disputes and brand protection expert Peter Singfield has been promoted to partner. He joined the firm in 2008 from city firm Lovells and became an associate at Foot Anstey in 2010. Peter works with brand owners and defendants...
The Royal West of England Academy (RWA) in Bristol has appointed Alison Bevan as a director. Alison brings significant experience with more than 15 years’ managing art establishments, most recently as director of the Penlee House Gallery in Penzance. She takes up position on 1 August and will oversee...
Creative England has appointed Kate Buxton, formerly of the BBC, as its new head of communications and strategy. Kate, who took up her post in the Bristol office last month, will lead on strategy, marketing and communications. Kate has worked with the media, Government, Whitehall and opinion formers for public sector organisations including the British Council...
Santander Corporate & Commercial has appointed Sue Lewis as a new relationship director for the South West. Based at the bank’s corporate business centre in Bristol, Sue will specialise in working with businesses with annual turnovers of more than £2.5m in the education, healthcare and communities sectors and will...
