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A round-up of the latest appointments on the Tees business scene...
experience with him.
As well as working at a number of popular restaurants around the North East and Yorkshire, most recently Karl was head chef at Solberge Hall in Northallerton and was part of the team to achieve two AA rosettes.
He has previously worked as Gisborough Hall’ s banqueting chef and then went on to be head chef at Hall Garth Hotel for seven years.
Karl will be responsible for running Gisborough Hall’ s two AA Rosette Chaloner’ s Restaurant as well as the more informal G Bar and Bistro. He plans a number of changes, such as new Sunday lunch and afternoon tea menus and a new‘ Taste of Yorkshire’ sharing platter.
recruitment process for a permanent successor to Lewis, who has been in post for two years.
Julie has been the director of finance for both the combined authority and the South Tees Development
Corporation since August 2017. role as business advisor at Northern Skills Group.
His appointment marks the start of a number of imminent new recruitments, with Calm also planning to bring in another senior developer, a project manager and a web designer.
Richard Chilver, Country Valley Foods Country Valley Foods, the Billingham-based food service supplier, has appointed the former executive chef from Lumley Castle to put a fresh perspective on sales of its new range of dried, ambient and frozen products.
Richard Chilver, who managed the kitchens, menus, and supplies at the exclusive County Durham venue for six years, has returned to the team at Country Valley Foods, where he previously worked until 2010.
The experienced chef will be using his inside knowledge of the restaurant business to advise the company about what products are most desired in the kitchen and showcasing the company’ s range of products to clients within the catering industry.
Julie Gilhespie, Tees Valley Combined Authority The Tees Valley Combined Authority has appointed Julie Gilhespie as its new interim managing director.
The appointment follows the announcement that the current managing director, Andrew Lewis, is to become the new chief executive of Cheshire West and Chester Council.
The combined authority has started a
Andrew Broumley, Phusion IM Billingham-based Phusion IM, one of the UK’ s leading information management firms, has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of a new head of marketing.
Andrew Broumley, previously marketing manager of cloud infrastructure experts Pulsant, formerly Onyx Group, brings with him 15 years’ senior marketing experience, during which time he was instrumental in developing a regional tech firm, in an intensively competitive market, into an award-winning national brand.
Working closely with executive chairman Steve Pearson, Andrew’ s focus will be to develop and execute strategic plans to support Phusion’ s innovative approach of making business information powerful.
Carl Thom and Helen Stewart, Calm Digital A leading digital software agency has appointed a new business development manager and a new director as it gears up for growth.
Helen Stewart, former head of business development for Middlesbrough-based Calm Digital, has been appointed as a new director to help develop new business relationships and support organic growth.
Calm Digital has also recently welcomed Carl Thom as business development manager, joining the firm from his previous
Matthew Telling, RMS Recruitment A growing recruitment agency has strengthened its management team with the addition of a well-known industry professional.
Matthew Telling has joined Darlington-based Resource Management Solutions( North East) as the company’ s new operations manager to help drive forward the company’ s ambitious growth plans.
Award-winning RMS was formed in 2000 by Carole Martin, who has grown the company from scratch to a team of 32 with 12 operations strategically based around the UK. The business is now aiming to expand its services, creating more jobs, and also plans to open another North-East office within the next year.
Matthew said:“ I’ m very proud to be the new RMS operations manager. I’ m excited and very happy to take this big challenge.
“ RMS is a business with major ambition for growth, and that’ s one of the big things that attracted me to the opportunity.
“ I’ m positive that with everyone working together we will make RMS even more successful and build a truly special organisation.”
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