Rentokil Initial has appointed Sally Johnson to its Board as a Non-Executive Director with effect from 1 April 2023. Johnson brings substantial commercial and strategic finance experience from her extensive executive career to the post. She is the Chief Financial Officer of the FTSE 100 company, Pearson plc, which is also listed on the New York…
Appointments
RS Group has appointed Simon Pryce as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director with effect from 3rd April. David Egan, Acting CEO, will work alongside Pryce in his role of Chief Financial Officer. Pryce served most recently as CEO of Ultra Electronic Holdings plc for over four years which was acquired by Advent in August…
An international team from Serco presented at the 17th SpaceOps conference in the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre at Dubai World Trade Centre last week, also announcing the launch of a new Space division for the Middle East. The new division will be headed by Amar Vora, who transfers from Serco’s Space division in the…
PPDS continues its recruitment drive with the appointment of experienced AV sales specialist Kristen O’Connor as Sales Operations Manager for North America. Based in Oregon, and with a career entering its twelfth successful year, O’Connor is a respected member of the AV industry and community, having held a series of leadership roles at some of…
ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions UK & Ireland has bolstered its research and development department with the appointment of Mariam Tabarik as Product Innovation Engineer within its Door Group. Mariam began her journey with ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions in 2022 as a Research and Development Intern. Originally from Pakistan, she had been studying for her master’s…
Independent UK B Corp caterer, Houston & Hawkes, has expanded its leadership team with seven new appointments. Emilie Whiteoak, previously with BaxterStorey, joins as account director and will oversee a number of the caterer’s key accounts. Marinela Golfita, who joins from Thomas Franks London, and Steven Shaw, have been appointed as operations managers in London…
Compass Group has strengthened its social value expertise with the appointment of Neely Mozawala, the founder of the successful NHS “No Hungry Staff Campaign”. Mozawala is joining the social value team, as “Social Value Lead” and will be responsible for helping drive forward the company’s purpose agenda. As one of the UK’s largest employers, employing…
Logistics UK has named James Adcroft, UK Transport Compliance Manager at Tesco, as Chair of its national Road Freight Council and elected several senior representatives from the logistics and transport sectors to its Board. Adcroft succeeds former Chair, Allison Kemp MBE – managing director of A.I.M Commercial Services – who joined initially for a two-year…
Bidvest Noonan has announced Stephen Taylor as the Director of Operations for its Transport Solutions business unit which launched in December 2021. The business unit specialises in cleaning and support services for rail, coach, tram and bus service operators, with the facility services company which has bases in the United Kingdom and the Republic of…
Acivico has announced the appointment of Marina Robertson as Group Managing Director. Located in Birmingham, Europe’s largest local authority, Acivico was established in 2012, following the transfer of Birmingham City Council’s Building Control service and other statutory functions. Still wholly owned by the council, Acivico continues to support landmark projects across the city of Birmingham…
Thames Valley law firm Boyes Turner LLP has appointed a non-contentious construction specialist and a planning law consultant to its property development and house building team. Lawrence Bruce joins as Head of Construction, with Simon Dimmick joining as a planning law consultant. Bruce has extensive experience of all of the major forms of building and engineering…
UK security services provider Amulet has appointed its former commercial director Kieran Mackie as managing director. Mackie takes over from Darren Read, who has moved to the role of Chief Operating Officer at Churchill Group, Amulet’s parent company. Mackie has worked closely with Read over the years at Amulet developing the business’s growth path. Mackie…
PPDS, the exclusive global provider of Philips-branded professional display solutions, has made two appointments to its management team, with duo Sven Beinlich and Jason Bacon joining as corporate and retail directors. Their appointment confirmation – joining Simone Gagliardi, Valeriia Polovkova and Mikael de Fonseca – comes days before PPDS’ holds its third annual gathering of…
John Covert has been appointed as a director of Cushman & Wakefield’s Denver office and member of its newly formed Rocky Mountain Residential Land Services. Covert’s background includes a variety of work across the residential sector, including single-family residential development, lot and land acquisition, land development, consulting, urban planning, municipal / regional economic development, business…
Mace has appointed Davendra Dabasia to the new role of Chief Operating Officer of its consulting division. Dabasia, who previously served as managing director of the construction and consulting firm’s international division, also becomes a member of the group’s Executive Board and assumes responsibility for boosting Mace’s global delivery capability and growth, and transforming its…
UK soft-services provider Churchill Group has announced Julie Hollins, a former Colleague Engagement Partner at Barclays, as its new social value lead. Hollins will oversee initiatives that create social value, including the group’s on-going support for the employers domestic abuse, armed forces and care leavers’ covenants – in addition to encouraging colleagues to explore their…
Savills Investment Management has appointed Evert Castelein as Senior Fund Manager with responsibility for its investment strategy in the European logistics and industrial sectors. Castelein assumes responsibility for leading and growing new pooled investment vehicles geared at exploiting the continuing rental growth pressure in undersupplied urban markets, but at repriced levels. The introduction of flexible…
UK facility services provider Anabas has announced Owen Gooding as its new Employee Experience Manager. With over 25 years of experience in the hospitality industry, Gooding will support the provider of facility services to the corporate office space with service delivery across its many sites by leveraging a wealth of customer service experience gained predominantly…
Cushman & Wakefield has added two more talented commercial real estate brokers to its industrial sales and leasing teams in Phoenix, Arizona. Joining the firm are Micki Strain, Managing Director, who will specialize in institutional industrial investment sales, and Foster Bundy, Senior Associate, who will focus on industrial leasing and private capital sales. Strain will…
Wates has appointed divisional managing directors at its facilities management and southern planned housing maintenance businesses. Antony Collett joins as managing director of the housebuilder’s facilities management business and replaces James Gregg, who has moved into the role of managing director of its southern planned division, housing maintenance, having been managing both businesses since December…
Developer of adaptive real estate management software fu3e has named Andy Kean as Chief Revenue Officer. Kean, a SaaS sales leader with a track record of consistently high performance and achieving ambitious growth targets, served most recently as director and Head of UK Sales for CoStar Group in a role which saw him responsible for…
JLL has recruited a new Workplace Consulting team to its Canadian Project and Development Services business. Susan Chang joins as Senior Vice President, Workplace Consulting, with Curtis Kjinserdahl appointed as a director and Eddy Zhao joining as an analyst. The Workplace Consulting team will specialize in Real Estate Portfolio Optimization, Facility Planning and Programming, Workplace…
Royal BAM Group NV has appointed Huw Jones to succeed Ian Parish, BAM Nuttall executive director, who retires on 31 December. Parish, who has over 38 years’ experience in the civil engineering industry, re-joined BAM Nuttall in 2020 as managing director, major projects, before taking on the role of interim managing director of BAM Nuttall…
Ecolab has appointed Eric Green as an independent director and member of its Compensation and Human Capital Management and Governance committees. A seasoned executive with nearly 30 years of life sciences experience with a proven track record of driving growth and creating value, Green currently serves as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of West…
Atalian Servest has appointed Andy Porter as digital solutions manager with the remit of extending its technology offering across its FM services portfolio. Porter, who brings over a decade of experience in project management, data analytics, logistics, innovation and process development to the role, will implement new solutions focused on elevating efficiencies and services to…
Privately owned UK property services company Ian Williams has announced several senior internal appointments from April 2023 as part of its succession planning. The new team led by Zane Poyner, as managing director, represents a wide range of talent and experience. Key members include Jayne Cox, Finance Director, Amy Boothman, Sales & Marketing Director, Jason…
Mark Lodmill, MAI has joined Cushman & Wakefield’s Valuation and Advisory (V&A) Living Sectors practice in Denver as an Executive Director. With more than 25 years’ real estate appraisal and consulting experience, Lodmill focuses on multifamily valuations throughout Colorado’s front range, western slope and high-country regions including Denver, Boulder, Greeley, Fort Collins, Grand Junction, Durango,…
ASM Global has promoted Alex Merchán to the position of chief marketing officer with responsibility for its portfolio of 20,000 events across 350 venues hosting more than 164 million guests worldwide. In his new role, Merchán, who served most recently as EVP Marketing, will spearhead the company’s branding and positioning across key areas including global…
PPDS has appointed Nick Begleries as Commercial VP North America as parent company TPV Group strengthens its position as the world’s largest manufacturer of LCD displays by expanding the regional market for Philips-branded professional display solutions. During an illustrious career spanning a quarter of a century, Begleries has spurred some of the world’s largest and…
EMCOR UK‘s Head of Workplace, Ian Baker, has been named as the new Chair of the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWMF) Workspace Special Interest Group. IWFM maintains 11 special Special Interest Groups (SIGs) which provide expert guidance and opinion in a range of areas including sustainability, technology and people management – with the…
ASM Global has appointed Patrick Lynch as senior vice president of private events for the United States. An experienced sales leader with a record of scaling revenues across various industries including financial services, technology, hospitality and restaurants, Lynch was most recently head of sales and customer success for the e-commerce and marketing platform, Mercato. Lynch will…