Bristol-based IT services firm Chorus has embarked on an ambitious five-year growth plan after appointing a new managing director. Nicola Saner, pictured, has moved into the role after two years as operations director at the firm. She will now leading the executive team as it looks to implement its five-year expansion strategy. Portishead-based Chorus was...
Global law firm Osborne Clarke has appointed Omar Al-Nuaimi, the Bristol-based head of its infrastructure finance group, as its new international CEO. Omar Al-Nuaimi, pictured right, will take up the role next July, replacing Simon Beswick, who became the firm’s first international CEO eight years ago. The creation of the...
Specialist PR and digital communications agency bClear Communications has doubled in size with the appointment of three new team members. Simon Peevers has joined as senior account manager, Jack Hayes as account manager and Hannah Price as account executive. The Portishead-based agency specialises in financial services, technology, property and...
Investment group BGF has appointed Georgie Stratton to its growing Bristol team. Georgie, pictured, has taken up a direct origination role focusing on sourcing new investments and bolt-on acquisitions for portfolio companies across BGF’s Bristol, Reading and Cardiff offices. She joins from the Bristol office of accountancy group PwC,...
The Bristol office of transport planning, engineering and placemaking consultancy PJA has appointed award-winning chartered landscape architect David Moores as technical director in its placemaking team. David, pictured, brings 30 years’ experience of public realm and street design to the firm, which also has bases in Birmingham, Manchester, London, Reading,...
Bristol Energy has promoted its head of information services to managing director following its sale by Bristol City Council last month. Richard Orna, pictured, spent 10 months as part of the troubled firm’s executive team leading up to its acquisition by Together Energy. Ethical energy firm Together Energy, based...
Accountancy group EY’s Bristol office has recruited 41 new joiners – three more than last year – to support the business’s continued growth across the South West. Of the 41, some 31 were graduates, six business apprentices and two digital degree apprenticeship students. In addition to the full-time, permanent...
Leonard Curtis, the national business solutions group that advises small and medium-sized firms, has recruited Sean Ward as a manager in its Bristol office. The group, whose core offering spans legal advice to debt finance, said Sean’s appointment followed a period of strong growth and high levels of demand...
National law firm Clarke Willmott has appointed a new senior associate to the contentious construction team in its Bristol office. Rebecca Harries-Williams, pictured, has joined from regional law firm Foot Anstey’s Bristol office, where she spent just over five years as an associate (disputes resolution) in its projects, infrastructure...
UWE Bristol’s business liaison manager Aimée Sykes has been included in an international list of future leaders working hard to promote the representation of women in the workplace. Aimée, pictured, is at number 20 in the HERoes Women Future Leaders Role Model rankings, one of three annual INvolve HERoes Women Role...
Transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has strengthened its Bristol office with the appointment of James Radcliffe, who has joined as a partner in its private wealth team. James, pictured, specialises in tax, succession and estate planning issues for UK resident and domiciled families interested in the long-term preservation...
Bristol science and tech hub Future Space has appointed Aimeé Skinner as its new innovation manager in a move that further enhances its offering to member companies in a rapidly-changing business environment. Aimeé, pictured, joined Oxford Innovation, which operates Future Space on behalf of UWE, from Bristol Water, where she...
Kai von Pahlen, an associate in the Bristol office of law firm VWV, has become the Honorary Consul for Germany for Bristol, Somerset and Gloucestershire. Kai, who was born in Hamburg and studied law in the UK, was appointed to the role by the German Ambassador to the UK,...
