Renewable power firm Good Energy has promoted its finance director Rupert Sanderson to the executive director role of chief financial officer. Rupert, pictured, joined Chippenham-headquartered Good Energy in February 2017 in an interim role and was appointed finance director 11 months later. Now a member of the London Stock Exchange-listed firm’s board, he is...
Mid-market private equity investor LDC has further strengthened its South West & Wales team with the appointment of Oliver Schofield as an investment director. Oliver, who grew up in Bath, joins the office in Bristol from Goldman Sachs in London, where he was part of its leveraged finance team, supporting clients across the TMT...
A Bath-based academic who has become a national expert in ethics in policing and the CEO of the regional organisation promoting business links with China have been awarded OBEs in the New Year Honours list. Allyson Macvean, pictured, professor of policing and criminology and co-director of Bath Spa University’s Centre for Leadership, Ethics and...
Assetz Capital, the specialist small business lender, has appointed Tony Kear as relationship director as it looks to help more firms across the region access growth funding. Tony, pictured, has 34 years’ experience in banking having worked for NatWest and RBS as head of healthcare and financing businesses across the South West. He most...
Lloyds Banking Group has appointed long-standing director Jeremy Hayward as its ambassador for the South West to help support social and economic prosperity across the region. Jeremy, pictured, will take the lead on delivering the group’s Helping Britain Prosper plan in the region. The plan, launched in 2014, sets public targets in areas such...
International accountancy group KPMG has promoted Andrew Morgan to chair of its South region, a role that gives him responsibility for strategy in an area that covers Bath and includes its offices in Bristol, Reading, Southampton, Plymouth and Cardiff. Andrew, pictured, succeeds Karen Witton, who has stepped down after four years to focus on...
National law firm Stone King has appointed Hannah Duddridge to its family and mediation team and Kez Bailey to head its IT operations. Both are based in the firm’s Bath office. Hannah, pictured, has joined from the London family law firm Dawson Cornwell, where she completed her training as a solicitor with a focus...
Bath-based specialist lender 1pm has promoted Andrew Gosling to sales manager in its vehicles division. Andrew, pictured, will be responsible for growing sales and profitability in line with the group’s vision. The appointment follows a restructuring and strengthening of 1pm’s senior management teams, including Mark Burgess becoming head of vehicles and Lorraine Neyland as...
A University of Bath student who fled Afghanistan aged 10 has graduated from his Medical Biosciences Master’s degree with merit last week. Mohammad Seddiqian, pictured, aged 29, left his home country with his family in 2000 during the rule of the Taliban. After living in Iran for several years, he sought asylum in the...
Commercial property and investment company LCP has opened a South West office as it looks to continue to grow across the region. The office in Bristol will be led by Adam Martin, pictured, who joins LCP as an associate director from Knight Frank, where he was head of South West Lease Advisory and worked...
