West Yorkshire-based real estate agent Charnock Bates hired a land and a new Holmes manager.
Gary Roberts joined us from house builder Duhi Holmes to bring over 27 years of experience in the role of selling new homes within the house building sector.
At Charnock Bates, he leads the agency's new home sales activities. This includes working with developers to appoint Charnock Bates to sell new homes and staying in touch with future buyers about purchasing a new home.
Roberts is also tasked with identifying potential land for development across the region and negotiating sales to developers on behalf of the landowner.
Charnock Bates is an expert selling fines, nations and eras homes across West Yorkshire, with a focus on selling homes worth over £500,000.
Roberts said: “Charnock Bates has built an incredible reputation for providing expert service and advice to both buyers and sellers in West Yorkshire.
“We look forward to working with our team to further enhance our reputation by growing new housing and land businesses and making the local market a leader.”
Charnock Bates is part of the Yorkshire Property Consultant Walker Singleton. “We've been working hard to get the most out of our business,” said Ben Waites, director of Charnock Bates.
“We believe his expertise will play a key role in the continued growth and success of Charnock Bates within the land and new housing market.”
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Skipton Group has appointed Jasvinder Gakhal as Money's new CEO. This is subject to regulatory approval.
She is the successor to the role of Andrew Bottomley, following the announcement that she left last fall.
Gahar will join the Skipton Group on March 3 and will work together to create a seamless transition with Bottomley before retiring after the final annual meeting in April.
Leeds-based Gahar joined the Skipton Group of Direct Line Group and worked for 19 years.
She has a wealth of experience and leads interdisciplinary teams across multiple sites.
Recently, I spent three years as managing director of Direct Line's Flagship Motor & Rescue Business.
She is a champion of gender diversity and a woman in senior business roles.
Stuart Haire, CEO of Skipton Group, said:
“The experience of providing both commercial and customer achievements and her natural curiosity makes her a perfect fit for what we want to achieve in the money business. It makes the money of our members even more difficult.
“I would also like to take this opportunity to say a big 'thank you' and share how much I miss Andrew Bottomley.
“His passion, experience and enjoyable nature are overlooked around the executive table, but it becomes a huge addition around any board table when he starts his portfolio career.”
Gahar added: “I am truly excited by my mission to join an organization that places clients at the heart of everything they do and support our members with long-term financial well-being.”
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Russell Greenwood, a charter engineer, participated Clancy Consulting as Division Director.
Based in Clancy's Leeds and Manchester offices, he provides experienced architectural service engineering to interdisciplinary consultants.
He brings important commercial understandings, including financial risk and project risk management, and he brings a track record in building highly successful technically strong teams from his previous roles.
Greenwood has held senior positions at WSP and Waterman, and more recently as partner/director at Leeds at Hoarei, growing the MEP and sustainability team from age 28 to 52 over the course of five years.
Due to the specific expertise in electrical bias and electromechanical resilience, he has expertise across sectors covering data centers, defense, healthcare, offices, retail, housing, education, science & research.
“These are the best ways to create a new and exciting new environment,” said Scott Lydon, who oversees architectural services engineering during practice at Clancing. “Russell has helped to expand MEP offerings across the Yorkshire region and the wider M62 corridor, working closely with established multi-family teams in Leeds and Manchester.
“We look forward to demonstrating proven skills in leadership, projects, technical knowledge and client relationship management, and to warmly welcome him to the team and board of directors and supporting his career development at Clancy. ”
Greenwood's new appointment further strengthens the senior management team in the North, following Nick Burlinger, who won the post as technical director for the Manchester office last fall.
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Based in Tadcaster, a Tadcaster-based MPAC Group, which offers fast packaging and automation solutions, has appointed Steve Blair as Chief Operating Officer, Mike Brown as Chief Commercial Officer and David Taylor as Group Services Director.
Blair is a manufacturer and supplier of laboratory analytical instruments and participates from Malvern Panalytical, part of Spectris PLC, and holds the position of Vice President of Business.
In this role, he was responsible for his global operations covering supply centres in Europe, America and Asia.
Previously he was GKNAEROSPACE's Chief Operating Officer (UK & Nordics Region), overseeing operational performance in over 5,200 employees and £1.3 billion revenue regions.
He holds a Meng degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, London.
Brown was appointed Chief Commercial Officer six years later as America's Managing Director.
He has over 30 years of sales expertise within the industry, and this new position will help advance new revenue opportunities across key markets.
Taylor has been appointed Group Services Director from his position as Managing Director of the company Lambert Business, which he has held for the past two years.
In his new role, he is responsible for driving the MPAC Group's advance strategy to provide excellent service to its customers. He will be tasked with bringing together a global customer service team.
Chief Executive Adam Holland said: “We are delighted to announce the appointments of Steve, Mike and David.
“We currently have a leadership team that is perfectly aligned with our key strategic pillars, supports the integration of acquired new businesses and provides a structure tailored to our future ambitions.
“We look forward to working closely with Steve, Mike and David in these new roles and are excited for the future.”
