Serving the Teesside Business Community | 13
A round-up of the latest appointments on the Tees business scene...
who will be specialising in welding, CNC
machinist apprentice Jordan Walton, Harrison
Olive (supply chain management) and quality
technician apprentice Lewis Hunter.
range of local and national engineering,
manufacturing, retail and charity brands,
along with public sector clients.
Darren Cooney,
Active Chartered
Financial
Planners
Tees-based
Active Chartered
Financial Planners
has welcomed
a new training
and competence
manager to its
team.
Darren Cooney brings with him more than
30 years of financial services experience,
working with a number of local and national
brands, including Abbey National and Sun
Life.
He began his career with United Friendly
as a trainee agent, and worked his way up
through the business, eventually becoming a
Paraplanner.
Based at Active’s head office in Stockton,
Darren specialises in risk mitigation
and ensuring that all advice given is
compliant with Financial Conduct Authority
expectations.
Apprentices, QA Weld Tech
Middlesbrough-based provider of integrated
welding and engineering solutions, QA Weld
Tech, has added to its team of fully-qualified
and experienced engineers with its largest
intake of apprentices since the company was
established over 35 years ago.
Based at the Riverside Park Industrial
Estate, the firm will deliver its quality
apprenticeship programme across multiple
disciplines to the five recent appointments.
Recent apprentices to join the team
include Kieran Reynard and Will Helm,
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Seymour Civil Engineering
Hartlepool-based Seymour Civil Engineering
has taken further steps towards securing its
future success with the appointment of four
new company directors.
All hailing from existing roles within the
co mpany, Adam Harker has been named
as contracts director, Simon Rodgers as
commercial director, Stuart Dickens as
construction director and Karl Brennan as
pre-construction director.
Based at Seymour House on Hartlepool
Marina, Seymour Civil Engineering has
enjoyed a successful year, securing and
completing a number of major projects
across the region.
Mark Kenrick, px
Group
Mark Kenrick has
stepped up to the
chief executive
officer’s role with
the px group,
replacing Ian Clifford,
who has held the position for the past four
years – during which time the company has
enjoyed record growth.
Until recently the group’s director of safety,
health, environment and risk management,
Kenrick brings over 35 years’ experience in
the chemicals and processing industries to
the role.
Born on Tyneside but brought up in Wigan,
Kenrick joined ICI at Runcorn from school
as a technical apprentice, before gaining a
mechanical engineering degree at Imperial
College, London.
He spent time in Brazil and the USA and
was part of ICI’s polyester business, sold
to DuPont in 1998. There followed a spell
with Elementis Chromium and another
with DuPontSA, before this business was
sold to La Seda de Barcelona (LSB). It was
subsequently bought by the Lotte Group of
Korea. Kenrick was CEO of Lotte Chemical
UK between January 2012 and September
2015.
Grace
Stobbs,
Yuexin Jiao
and Lewis
Emers,
Baines
Jewitt
Tees
chartered accountancy firm Baines Jewitt has
strengthened its practice with an intake of
new recruits.
Grace Stobbs, Yuexin Jiao and Lewis
Emers have all recently joined the Stockton-
based company as trainee chartered
accountants.
As well as gaining practical experience in
the workplace, the new entrants are each
embarking on a three-year professional
training programme to become an Associate
Chartered Accountant (ACA) with the
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England
& Wales (ICAEW).
This latest intake of employees brings the
overall Baines Jewitt’s headcount to over 30.
Mark James, Dawn Huggett and Nathan
Donnelly, Cornerstone Business Solutions
Apple expert Mark James (pictured left) has
joined Cornerstone Business Solutions after
gaining numerous Apple accreditations. He
will lead a campaign for the IT firm to target
the local education market.
Dawn Huggett, from Norton, has joined
Cornerstone as the firm’s first business
development manager, after several years
working in a similar environment within the
security sector.
Cornerstone has also taken on apprentice
Nathan Donnelly, who will gain experience
across the departments with a view to
become a permanent member of staff at the
IT firm.
Meanwhile, less than 10 years after joining
Cornerstone as an administration officer in
the sales department, Chris Bibby has joined
the Stockton firm’s board of directors.
Bibby worked his way into a sales role
before winning promotion as the business
IT firm’s sales manager and has now been
appointed sales director. He joins Chris
Petty, Chris Clark and John Storey on the
Cornerstone board.
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