Bristol-headquartered national law firm Burges Salmon has recruited Martin Cook as its new head of fintech, describing him as a sector heavyweight. Joining as a director, Martin, pictured, will sit in the firm’s funds and financial regulation team, working closely with colleagues in its financial services sector and technology...
Regional law firm Michelmores has appointed head of corporate Richard Cobb as its new senior partner. Richard, pictured, succeeds Andrew Oldland QC, who has served as the firm’s senior partner for four years. At the time of his appointment Andrew was the first barrister to hold the role of senior...
Full-service eCommerce firm PushON has opened an office in Bristol after recruiting the co-founder of one of the city’s most-successful Magento agencies. Tim Willis, former client services director of C3 Media, is now heading PushON’s new office at Bristol’s Runway East creative hub. PushON was founded in Manchester in...
Malachy McReynolds, the chair of regional alternative finance lender SWIG Finance, is to step down in March after five years in the role. He will be replaced by Christine Allison, a former lead economist for the World Bank, who has been a non-executive director of SWIG Finance for the...
Fast-growing Bristol-based healthcare marketing and advertising agency Create Health has ended the year by recruiting three more staff. Ben Price joins as commercial account director and Tom Hunt as project manager while Matt Sugrim becomes the agency’s first in-house animator. Create Health, which works on global and national campaigns for...
Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees has joined the board of city-based natural history documentary maker Plimsoll Productions. The company said his responsibilities as a non-executive director will include providing strategic advice to chief executive Grant Mansfield and the board on matters such as commercial opportunities, talent, diversity and sustainability. ...
Two new partners, a legal director and an associate have taken up their new roles at Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) Bristol office as part of a series of promotions across the transatlantic law firm’s UK arm. The new Bristol partners are Jo Martin and Tom Caplen while Janice Cowley has been...
Bristol-based recruitment investment business TIMESTWO has launched a start-up focused on the senior HR market as part of its ongoing commitment to the industry. Maru HR has been founded by expert Hannah Waddington, who plans to develop a unique offer to the market by drawing on the expertise of TIMESTWO...
South West accountancy group PKF Francis Clark has appointed a new head of its Bristol office to spearhead its continued expansion in the city and surrounding area. Paul Bray, pictured, has taken over as lead partner following the retirement of Mike Lea. He will be working closely with corporate...
International commercial property agency Cushman & Wakefield has made five promotions in its Bristol office. Chris Yates, pictured, who works in the logistics & industrial team, and Sophia Sham, pictured, from its healthcare team, have both been made up to partner. At the same time Kasia Glaz, also part of the...
Bristol-based property consultancy Alder King has appointed Gareth Jackson as a partner in its planning team to help service continuing strong demand for its planning services. Gareth, pictured, has joined the firm after 10 years in London, most recently as planning director at real estate group Dominvs, where he...
Business turnaround specialist Claire Burden has joined the Bristol office of financial and professional services firm Smith & Williamson as a partner in its national advisory consultancy business. Claire, pictured, arrives at Smith & Williamson after spending 10 years in industry, including spells as head of finance at Bristol-based OVO Energy and as finance...
Optimum Finance, the Bristol-based invoice finance provider, has appointed two regional sales directors to cover the West of England, Wales and the South East and promoted its Yorkshire-based sales director to commercial director. Kelvin Thomas is in charge of sales in Wales and the West while Iain Hendry has...
