Family house building company Muir Homes appointed Nicola McCowan as a land and planning manager.
McCowan will be responsible for identifying, evaluating and acquiring land and sites on which Muir can work towards its plans to build more quality homes across Scotland.
Muir Homes are currently working on several sites throughout Aberdeenshire, Perthshire and the West of Scotland, and on new land opportunities in the central belt of Scotland, with well advanced plans to create a further 155 houses on new sites next year.
While, property advisors Rettie & Co poached Neil Cunningham from Knight Frank as its commercial director to help support the growth of the business.
Cunningham will be responsible for delivering the firm’s strategic sales and lettings priorities to ensure that there is a focus on sustainable and profitable growth.
He worked with Knight Frank from 2017 in the London property market and Foxtons for 12 years in both sales and lettings.
While in the hospitality industry, hotel operator Apex Hotels have made two senior appointments to help support its post-pandemic regeneration of the business to improve the guest experience and the hotel’s internal culture.
Michael Stott joins the company in the role of commercial director, from Hoar Cross Hotel & Spa having also held notable roles within Macdonald Hotels and Resorts, Whittlebury Hall & Spa and Centre Parcs during his three decades within the industry.
It also appointed a new HR director Kerry Draper who has more than 20 years of experience in HR and people management, including key roles with household names like Virgin, British Gas and Carlsberg.
In the accountancy sector Hall Morris promoted Derek Petre from his position as audit and accounts and business advisory director to a partner.
He joined Hall Morrice, as a trainee accountant in 1999 after graduating from the University of Aberdeen; qualifying as a chartered accountant in 2002.
He worked his way through the ranks of the business, becoming senior audit manager in 2006, and taking up the position of audit, accounts and business advisory director in 2013.
Recruitment has begun for his previous role of audit, accounts and business advisory director and Petrie will retain these duties until his replacement is appointed.
While Aberdeen headquartered procurement specialist Craig International made three appointments to its board of directors to support its international growth.
Bruce Cormie becomes director of North American operations; Steve Gibson director of Middle East operations and Andrew Adams is appointed as finance director.
All three have been with Craig International since it expanded internationally over the last few years and have contributed to success through adding new clients, expanding into new geographical markets and increasing turnover from £70m in 2015 to an estimated £120m this year.
In the housing and caring sector, Bield Housing and Care appointed Beth McNeil and David Fisher to help position the organisation as Scotland’s leading provider of housing, care and support for older people.
Development and regeneration professional Beth McNeil has years of experience and operational leadership of large-scale regeneration and new build projects with a keen interest in how housing can be adapted to provide homes fit for a changing world.
The second new board member is housing expert David Fisher, who started his housing career in the 1980s with the Scottish Special Housing Association, later graduating in Housing and Urban Studies from Glasgow University. Fisher provides expert advice on strategic asset management, growth and customer service.
In the media sector, PR firm Clark, hired four new members of staff across its Edinburgh and Glasgow offices.
In March, Janice Macgregor joined as associate director, from her role as head of communications for Salmon Scotland.
She joins Clark’s management team and will provide senior counsel to clients with an international footprint, such as Seafood Scotland and Moore Global.
Other March hires include Murray Glen who joined as an account manager based in Glasgow, as well as account executives Louise Thompson and Sophie Lynch.
In the tech sector, Scottish software development company, Vidatec, appointed Nick Welch as chief technology officer.
Welch joins the Dundee-based tech firm as part of a strategic move to provide wider software development services across key sectors including retail, leisure tourism and travel, health, and finance.
He joins Vidatec with nearly 20 years’ experience, including roles at Progressive Content and GlobalData Plc, and project experience with blue chips including British Airways and Jaguar Land Rover.
Following a restructure of its leadership team, Insights Group veteran, Ross Wilson, is also named as client and partnerships director with a brief to bring more data analytics and insights into customer projects.
The Scottish legal sector also saw a raft of appointments with Gilson Gray, promoting its private client associate to partner.
Joe Davies, who has been with the firm since 2018 was promoted to partner and let him continue the hands-on and focused leadership of Gilson Gray’s private law services.
Law firm Shakespeare Martineau has appointed a new dual-qualified legal director.
With almost 10 years’ experience working in Scotland, Nicky Grant has joined the firm’s commercial real estate team and will be based in Edinburgh.
Prior to his new role, Grant spent seven years at Edinburgh-based Dickson Minto after completing his property-focused traineeship at Raeburn Christie Clark & Wallace in Aberdeen.
While Edinburgh-based legal services firm Vialex poached experienced lawyer Scott Moncur as head of financial services and sustainable development.
Moncur joined Vialex from Medici Legal Advisors, a boutique law firm specialising in digital disruption and FinTech.
Originally from Inverness, he has more than three decades of financial service industry blue chip experience, gained from working throughout the UK with FTSE 100 firms as an in-house counsel, and with prominent law firms in Scotland.
Weber Shandwick, appointed Natalie Buxton’s to the newly created role of UK network managing director. Buxton will retain her role as managing director of Weber Shandwick Scotland, while taking on the responsibility of connecting Weber Shandwick’s UK offices in London, Manchester and Scotland.
It also made a raft of new appointments across its UK business including Suzanne Gilson who joins as UK chief financial officer; Neil Flash as chief operating officer for Weber Shandwick UK; and Dean Gallagher has been promoted to managing director, Weber Shandwick Manchester.
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