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27/02/09 - The Random House Group has appointed Faye Brewster to the position of Deputy Managing Director CCV.

Faye, who is currently Deputy Group Sales Director for RHG, will take up her new role on March 2nd. Reporting into CCV MD Richard Cable, her role will include direct responsibility for the Marketing and Publicity departments headed up by Roger Bratchell and Christian Lewis respectively.

Richard Cable said: "At a time when publishing is facing many challenges, I am absolutely delighted that we shall be benefitting from Faye's wide ranging publishing experience and expertise. Leading the marketing and publicity teams, and working alongside Dan Franklin and Rachel Cugnoni, Faye will be a brilliant and popular addition to the senior team at CCV.

"We have seen significant investment in the CCV publishing company over recent years and Faye will be focusing her attention on ensuring that we continue to grow profitably in a challenging market."

Faye Brewster said: "I'm delighted to be joining CCV's talented and passionate team and to be working on such a prestigious list of authors, many of whom I know already."

Faye joined Random House in 2001 as the divisional sales director responsible for CCV and CHA (now Cornerstone). In 2006 she was promoted to Deputy Group Sales Director. Prior to joining RHG, her book industry career began in 1991 working for Dillons, before moving to Hodder and Stoughton in 1995 where she progressed from UK Sales assistant to Key Accounts Director.

26/02/09 - Digital direct marketing company eCircle has promoted its director of operations for UK & France Simon Bowker to UK managing director.

Bowker will take over from Alexander Meyer who is moving to eCircle's head office in Germany as group chief financial officer on a permanent basis.

Meyer had previously been joint UK managing director and group CFO.

In his new role Bowker will be responsible for growing eCircle's business in the UK, with a particular focus on developing the offering of the company's technology division, including its email broadcast tool eC-messenger. He will oversee a team of over 60 people.

As operations director, Bowker developed the operations teams in the UK and France, managing over 20 staff across both countries and advising on email strategies for clients including Samsung, Argos, HBOS, MBNA and Standard Life.

Prior to joining eCircle in 2002, Bowker was senior project manager at independent web development agency Hyena where he worked across a number of clients in the public services sector.

25/02/09 - Harvey Nash plc today announced the promotion of Nigel Parslow to UK Managing Director of Executive Search operations.

In his new role, Parslow assumes direct responsibility for the UK based business, part of an Executive Search organisation that now stretches across Europe and the USA.

Parslow built his early career in engineering and manufacturing, with Westland Helicopters and Rolls-Royce, before moving into the recruitment industry in 1987.

Since joining Harvey Nash in 1999, Parslow has occupied a number of management positions, including Practice Head of a large and growing commercial and industrial team, Divisional Director, and more recently as Chairman of UK Executive Search.

His most recent role as Chairman of UK Executive Search has provided him with oversight of all operations as the business doubled its revenues and became a leading Executive Search provider across the UK, Europe and the USA.

Commenting on the appointment, Harvey Nash Group CEO Albert Ellis said "Nigel is one of our most experienced and reliable senior managers. We will look to him to provide seasoned leadership and navigate our UK Executive Search business through the current economic challenges. With 22 years recruitment experience, Nigel is an accomplished leader who has seen it all. He will get the best out of his people and ensure we maintain our position as a leading Executive Search firm with powerful international ambitions."

25/02/09 - Ian Carton, the co-head of global markets, financing and services in Europe at Merrill Lynch, has decided to leave the firm, it was announced today.

Carton spent 17 years at Merrill and is the ninth high-profile managing director in the region to resign since mid-September, when Bank of America rescued Merrill, the announcement said.

24/02/09 - The senior management team at racing circuit Rockingham has been further strengthened following the appointment of a new Head of Sales & Events.

Jane Wade has joined the Northamptonshire circuit from former leading event management specialists European Events, and brings a wealth of experience to her new role.

The 35-year-old has always worked within the sales, events and marketing industry and has gained vast knowledge and experience in these fields over her 14-year career.

Jane began her career as a sales rep with Douglas Gill International selling to retail outlets, and during her seven years with the company gained a diploma in marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).

She joined European Events in 2002 as marketing manager and gained her Masters Degree in Leisure Marketing. Jane was promoted to head of the sales team before joining the board of directors.

Jane is looking forward to being part of a well-established Rockingham team and building on the success of previous years.

23/02/09 - Riello Ltd has appointed Barry Gregory as managing director to take on responsibility for all Riello's UK operations in both the residential and commercial burner markets.

Barry has been with Riello for 17 years and moves up from his role as Technical Director.

He takes over the role from Phil Adams, who has been promoted to European Commercial Director of the Riello SpA Burner Division.

Reporting directly to worldwide head office in Italy, Phil will be responsible for all Riello's European burner subsidiaries including companies in Poland, Germany, France and the UK.

23/02/09 - Giunti Labs, the leading learning and mobile content management solution provider, has appointed Jan-Jilis (JJ) van Delsen as its Sales Director in the UK.

A sales and marketing professional with over 15 years experience in technology-led multi-channel operations, covering software development, consultancy and internet hardware, JJ came to Giunti Labs from the global design software developer Autodesk where he was EMEA channel development director.

Before that JJ had occupied senior management roles for Thomson NETg and has been a trainer himself.

JJ, who holds an MBA from the New York Institute of Technology, said: "More than ever, organizations need to 'run efficient' and invest their money based on strong, low risk returns.

Giunti Labs creates great value for those companies which need to develop, manage and publish large amounts of content."

Andrea Gentili, Giunti Labs' Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, commented: "We're delighted that our UK-based team is being strengthened by JJ.

"At present, we're seeing all aspects of performance support, rather than specific 'learning' activities, becoming increasingly important to our clients. Giunti Labs' new solution offerings - ably promoted by JJ and his team in the UK - reflect this trend and aim to help our customers achieve their business goals more effectively."

20/02/09 - John Davy, a non-executive director of online gambling group Party Gaming plc, has notified the board of directors of his intention to resign as a director for personal reasons. Davy will remain a director until his successor has been selected and therefore the effective date of his resignation will be announced in due course.

Davy joined the Party Gaming group in December 2007 as a Non-Executive Director, having created and built a series of successful businesses over a 25 years career. He co-owned and developed Jongleurs Comedy Clubs before selling the UK franchise in August 2000.

He remains non-executive Chairman of Jongleurs Comedy Limited, a diversified leisure business whose interests include television and corporate hospitality and is chairman of Mentor Inns LLP and Lombard Asset Management Ltd.

19/02/09 - James Boulton has resigned from his position as UK marketing director of HSBC with immediate effect. The marketer, who handed in his resignation last week, is not believed to have another job to go to.

HSBC refused to comment on his departure, although it is believed a recruitment process will begin shortly.

HSBC's head of UK marketing, former Wanadoo marketer Philip Mehl, First Direct marketing director Mark Mullen and M&S Money head of marketing Amanda Newman will run the bank's marketing functions until an appointment is made. They will report to HSBC's head of customer propositions, Carlos Wanderley.

Boulton joined HSBC in 2005 from HBOS, where he had overseen the Halifax brand and the launch of its 'staff as stars' marketing campaign. Prior to joining HBOS, Boulton had worked as crisps marketing director at PepsiCo Walkers Snack Foods. He started his career with a seven-year stint at Unilever.

18/02/09 - Car rental company Europcar has announced that Mark Cotterill has been promoted to managing director of Europcar Group UK.

He succeeds John Leigh, who was named chairman of Europcar UK Ltd, the holding company for Europcar's subsidiaries in the UK.

Mr Leigh joined Europcar in 2007 with the company’s acquisition of Vanguard EMEA, which operated the National and Alamo vehicle rental brands across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

In all, he has been involved in the entities which now constitute Europcar's UK operations for more than 35 years.

18/02/09 - SHL, the talent assessment solutions provider, has appointed Peter Humphreys as VP Sales, UK & Ireland. Humphreys will be responsible for driving SHL's revenue growth and will manage a 40-strong team of both field and internal sales staff.

Humphreys joined SHL in 2003 as an Account Director, managing some of SHL's largest and most complex UK and global accounts. Taking on further responsibilities in his role as Head of the Account Director Team, Humphreys managed SHL's key strategic global accounts, building long-term and mutually profitable customer relationships before his promotion to VP Sales, UK and Ireland. Prior to joining SHL, he began his career as National Account Manager at Achieve Global, a world leader in skills training and development.

17/02/09 - Asda, the UK's second-largest grocer, has promoted Andy Clarke to chief operating officer, as it simplifies the structure of its senior executives.

The promotion comes as Asda is expected to today unveil like-for-like sales growth, excluding fuel, of more than 7 per cent for its fourth quarter of 2008.

The grocer has added logistics to the remit of Mr Clarke, who was previously retail director, and is now accountable for all operations.

Asda has also changed the job titles of the group trading director Darren Blackhurst to chief merchandising officer and that of marketing director Rick Bendel to chief marketing officer, to bring it more in line with parent Wal-Mart's management structure.

The promotion of Mr Clarke will add to speculation about who may eventually replace Andy Bond, the current chief executive. Mr Bond has said that he will not stay in his current job beyond 2012. Some have tipped Mr Bond as a contender for the top job at Marks & Spencer once Sir Stuart Rose retires, although other sources believe he may take a wider international role within Wal-Mart.

By giving Mr Clarke the logistics brief, Asda has freed up Doug Gurr, its executive development director, to focus on new development areas, such as Asda’s e-commerce site and financial services business.

16/02/09 - Omnicom-owned DDB Worldwide has promoted Philippe Berthelot to global business director for its Unilever-owned Lipton teas account.

Berthelot was appointed to the account as European business director a year ago and has worked for the agency for 12 years. He will be based at the agency's Paris office and report to European president Michael Bray.

The appointment follows Unilever's consolidation of the global Lipton account into DDB Worldwide last year. The agency has worked with the brand in the US in 2004 and across Europe since 2005.

13/02/09 - London Stock Exchange Group named Xavier Rolet to succeed Clara Furse as chief executive officer, bringing an end to her eight-year reign at Europe's oldest independent bourse.

Rolet, 49, who was head of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in France until Nomura Holdings Inc. bought its European investment bank last year, will join the board on March 16, the exchange said in a Regulatory News Service statement today. He ran equity trading at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., European equities at Credit Suisse First Boston and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson before joining Lehman in 2000. He will start as CEO on May 20.

Under Furse, LSE's first female CEO, the bourse fought off five takeover offers in two years and bought the operator of the Milan stock exchange in 2007. While LSE has remained independent, rivals including Euronext NV, Deutsche Boerse AG and Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. have forged alliances, adding to the range of products they offer and giving them greater size. LSE's shares lost 74 percent last year on concern falling stock prices and competition from electronic exchanges will erode earnings.

12/02/09 - The deputy chairman of the Financial Services Authority resigned Wednesday following allegations that as the former head of HBOS PLC he fired a manager who warned the bank was taking too many risks. The bank later needed a taxpayer-funded bailout.

James Crosby, who has also worked as an adviser to Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government alongside his role at the market regulator, said he was confident there was "no substance" in the allegations but resigned to protect the agency's reputation.
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Crosby's departure followed claims by Paul Moore, the former head of regulatory risk at HBOS, that his warnings to executives including Crosby that the bank was growing too rapidly were dismissed and ultimately led to him being fired in 2005.

11/02/09 - HP has named Pierre-Yves Tilly as HR Director for the MEMA region (Middle-East, Mediterranean and Africa).

Pierre-Yves Tilly, 46, is a graduate of the Reims Management School & the London Middlesex University, and from 2000 to 2002 was HR Director for Compaq France before occupying the same function at HP Services France. In 2005 he became Director of the HR practice within HP Services EMEA, and in 2006 for HP France.

From July 2008 he was in charge of the HR activities related to the acquisition of the EMEA activities of EDS.

11/02/09 - Magic 105.4 managing director Mark Story is to leave Bauer Media in a management shakeup that sees Kiss boss Steve Parkinson promoted to the newly created role of managing director of both London stations.

Story is understood to have been invited to apply for the Bauer Media joint managing director job but declined.

He has been with Bauer - previously called Emap Radio - for 11 years. He was managing director of the company's national brands as well as overseeing Magic, which he took charge of in April last year.

Story, who was interviewed for the BBC Radio 2 controller's job that went to former BBC Radio 5 Live controller Bob Shennan, will leave Bauer on 26 February.

He is expected to go on to work as a radio consultant in the UK and overseas. He has previously worked as a consultant launching radio stations in India.

11/02/09 - The Brand Union has promoted Managing Director Simon Bailey to the role of Chief Executive Officer.

The appointment follows a year that saw the London office pick up major briefs from Argos, Barclaycard, Reckitt Benckiser, Canon and Ford, launch new initiatives to support young designers, and scoop a raft of awards and accolades, with Marketing magazine calling them 'One to Watch' in 2009. Of BrandZ's Top 100 Most Powerful Brands, more than 10 fall within the current custody of the global agency�s London office.

Bailey joined The Brand Union, whose other clients include SABMiller, Vodafone and Portsmouth F.C, in 2004 as Client Services Director. He was appointed Managing Director at the end of last year, following the agency�s rebrand from Enterprise IG to The Brand Union in November.

10/02/09 - Jim Brigden, the former chief executive of £100m turnover agency The Search Works, has joined I Spy Search as chief executive.

Brigden has spent 10 years managing UK search businesses while I Spy Search is in its third year of existence.

The agency's founder Chris Whitelaw has moved to the role of president, but the role of managing director Nick Jones, who joined in February 2007, will not change.

09/02/09 - the Royal Bank of Scotland has announced the resignation of seven non-executive directors from its board, including former EU commissioner and attorney general Peter Sutherland.

A reduction in the size of the board had been expected since the British government took a 70 per cent stake in the lender, which owns Ulster Bank and First Active in the Republic.

Mr Sutherland is also chairman of energy giant BP, a role from which he is due to retire in June, and chairman of Goldman Sachs International.

He has served on the RBS board for eight years and was not due for re-election for another three-year term due to the nine-year limit.

06/02/09 - The chief executive of an NHS hospital in west London has resigned over mistakes that meant eight patients were left more than 12 hours waiting for admission.

Tara Donnelly has stepped down from her job at West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust after the breaches of the government's targets for admission times.

According to a statement on the trust's website, the hospital also failed to observe protocols informing London Strategic Health Authority that the admission target was going to be breached.

Hospital chair Sue Ellen said: 'Tara, as leader of the organisation, recognised the seriousness of this and therefore decided that the most appropriate course was for her to step down.

'The Board, with regret, accepted her decision. The Board has launched an internal investigation to review how the hospital can ensure it avoids unnecessary waiting times in the future.'

06/02/09 - Sukhvinder Stubbs, chief executive of the Barrow Cadbury Trust for the past eight years, has resigned with immediate effect.

Stubbs stood down last week and, in a statement, the trust said she had left to "explore new opportunities while spending more time with her young daughter before she begins school".

Susie Parsons, former chief executive of the Commission for Racial Equality, Aids charity London Lighthouse and the Campaign for Learning, has taken over as part-time interim chief executive.

The trust said it would be recruiting a permanent replacement for Stubbs shortly.

06/02/09 - ValueClick Europe has bolstered its senior team with the promotions of Matthew Beck to Publisher and Operations Director, and Elliott Clayton to UK Sales Manager for ValueClick Media UK.

As ValueClick Media's new UK Sales Manager, Elliott will now be responsible for the day-to-day sales operations, and will report directly into Richard Sharp.

Richard Sharp, Managing Director, ValueClick Media comments, "Since joining ValueClick Media, Elliott has been instrumental in growing the business and has proved to be an invaluable part of the team. He is now driving the sales team in the UK forward and I have every confidence in his ability to take the team to new heights."

04/02/09 - Dell U.K. channel director Andy Dow has left the company. In place now are Emmanuel Mouquet, EMEA channel sales director and Kathy Schneider, EMEA channel programs manager.

Having a team in Europe - and one focused on Asia, Pacific and Japan - all rolling up to Davis is part of Dell's global channel mandate: "to grow commercial channels on a global basis. We'll do that with presence and offering and innovative value-add in all the countries that we operate in for our partners."

03/02/09 - Chris Jolly, the head of Merrill Lynch's UK property division, has left following a restructuring of the company after its take-over by Bank of America.

He left the newly merged bank last week having spent a year at the helm of the UK property division at Merrill.

Prior to Joining Merrill, he had been managing director of the corporate finance team at Jones Lang LaSalle and also head of property at Commerzbank�s London office.

David Church, was promoted to head of European Real Estate, Gaming and Lodging shortly before Christmas and has three managing directors; Simon Hampton, Richard Liao and Kari Pitkin working under him.

It is understood that the restructuring process is continuing at more a junior level.

03/02/09 - The managing director of the Scottish division of public relations consultancy, Weber Shandwick, has been promoted within the company.

Nora Senior has been made chair of UK Regions and Ireland, which will see her take on a wider management role in the firm�s European business.

Weber Shandwick has eight offices in the UK, with a staff of over 380, and 22 offices throughout Europe. It has four offices in Scotland: Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness.

Said Senior: "I am delighted to take on the challenge of working in a wider UK and European role. It is a great reflection on the excellence of our business operations and management in Scotland as a whole that this experience can be a positive influence on a wider European platform.

"I believe the promotion underpins Weber Shandwick�s philosophy that there are no 'glass ceiling' barriers to achievement and that being involved in running a European business does not have to be done from London."

02/02/09 - David Slade has resigned as chairman of the Loan Market Association (LMA) after taking early retirement from Credit Suisse, where he was co-head of European credit and head of European leveraged finance, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters Loan Pricing Corp on Monday.

Slade, who was integral to building Credit Suisse's European leveraged finance business, most recently played a key role in reducing the bank's risk profile through the liquidation of its European leveraged finance positions, according to the memo, which was confirmed by a bank spokesman.

Slade's departure will prompt the election of a new LMA chairman as the loan market's industry association seeks to guide the syndicated loan market through the current financial crisis.