Monahans, the South West’s largest independent accountancy firm, has appointed a new director and is taking on a second as it prepares for further growth this year along with the relocation and expansion of one of its eight offices. Becky Young, pictured, who re-joined the firm last year as a senior client portfolio manager,...
Business West, the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce, has appointed Emma Carter as its new membership director. Emma, pictured, started work at 16 after the Thames Valley Chambers of Commerce visited her school to talk about modern apprenticeships. At 18 she was selling memberships for the chamber and now, 24 years later, she has...
South West accountancy and finance group Old Mill is continuing its drive to become the fastest-growing practice in the region with the appointment of highly experienced tax specialist David Gage as partner and head of VAT. David, pictured, - who joins from Evelyn Partners’ Bristol office, where he was director of VAT – has joined Old Mill...
The achievements of business figures from the Bath area along with those from the not-for-profit sector have been recognised in the New Year’s Honours list for 2023. Toby Sutton and Jack Churchill, pictured, co-founders of tech innovator Scanning Pens, which produces pens that help dyslexic children and adults to read, received OBEs for services to international trade...
Bath Building Society has promoted its head of business change Steve Burnard to the new role of chief transformation officer as it enters its busiest period of change in its 119-year history. The society, which has more than 20,000 savers and 1,200 mortgage customers, said its focus this year would on digital transformation. Steve,...
FinTech West, the advisory body for the region’s burgeoning financial technology industry, has appointed two new members to its advisory board in a move to help mobilise more firms in the sector in the South West. The appointments of PwC director Katharine Adlard and NatWest senior relationship manager Louis Spencer, pictured, will enable FinTech West to...
The British Business Bank, the government’s economic development funder, has appointed former professional rugby player Edward Tellwright as a senior manager covering the South West. Edward, pictured, brings many years’ experience of working with smaller businesses in the region to access finance outside of his playing career with Sale Sharks, Rotherham and Jersey. He started...
Bath’s only Michelin-starred chef, Chris Cleghorn of the Olive Tree Restaurant, has been named the Hotel Restaurant Chef of the Year at the hotel industry ‘Oscars’, the Hotel Cateys. The prestigious awards celebrate the UK’s most successful hotel operators and their employees and are the industry’s only truly independent benchmark of operational excellence, with...
Three new partners have been appointed at South West accountancy and finance group Old Mill following a restructure to enable faster career progression and greater opportunities for staff. The promotions of Chartered Financial Planners Jon Orchard and Julia Banwell, both part of the wealth management tea, and director of tax Stephen Martin take the total...
Bath-headquartered global engineering group Rotork has appointed a former senior independent director of the Bank of England as its next chair. Dorothy Thompson, pictured, who has wide experience on the boards of international energy businesses, joins the group as an independent non-executive director and chair designate. She will replace current chair Martin Lamb when...
