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Sponsored by Solutions Recruitment, here’s our round-up
of the latest appointments on the Tees business scene...
The legal practice has also taken on three
apprentices in its residential conveyancing
team, Lucy Hewitt, Bethany Griffiths and
Jessica Garthwaite. All three are studying
for Business Administration NVQ Level
qualifications.
Lindsey Roberts, Visualsoft
Teesside-based e-commerce agency
Visualsoft has appointed Lindsey Roberts as
digital operations manager.
The newly created role is set to
strengthen the agency’s digital department
ahead of an exciting period of growth.
Lindsey previously spent three years
developing and shaping the email marketing
team at Visualsoft.
She will work closely with head of digital
Gavin Lowther to identify and implement
processes to improve the department’s
efficiencies and performance.
Erika Marshall, Education Training
Collective
Erika Marshall has joined the newly formed
Education Training Collective’s management
team as the group’s director of marketing.
Erika spent 15 years honing her skills
in the dynamic world of manufacturing,
engineering and construction marketing
with car manufacturer Nifco.
She has joined Etc. – which incorporates
Stockton Riverside College, Redcar
and Cleveland College, Bede Sixth
part of the Talent84 family
Form College, NETA Training, The Skills
Academy and the Tees Valley Logistics
Academy – as the group undergoes a brand
transformation, adopting a new shared
corporate identity.
Caitlin Towers and Callum Dougherty,
ENGIE
Two Hartlepool College students who got
a taste for ENGIE on work experience have
both now been taken on by the leading
energy and regeneration specialist.
Caitlin Towers and Callum Dougherty
both experienced working on site during
a placement at the Parkfields housing
development in Stockton – which ENGIE
is building on behalf of Thirteen Housing
Group – during their studies at Hartlepool
College.
Just months after impressing the team
with their enthusiasm and work ethic,
Caitlin and Callum landed full-time roles
as trainee design co-ordinators in ENGIE’s
technical team.
Angela Lowe, Rockliffe Hall
Rockliffe Hall has recruited a new corporate
sales and events executive to focus on
further enhancing relationships with local
companies and securing new business.
Angela Lowe, from Newton Aycliffe,
joins the five red star resort’s sales and
marketing team with almost 30 years of
hospitality industry and sales experience.
Her key roles at the hotel, golf and spa
resort in Hurworth, near Darlington, will be
to develop links with businesses and secure
revenue through conferences, events,
corporate accommodation and golf days.
Angela spent 11 years at Headlam Hall
working in roles including spa manager and
operations manager and was previously
operations manager at Houndgate
Townhouse in Darlington.
Suzanne Withrington, Institute of
Directors
The Institute of Directors (IoD) has
appointed two university lecturers as vice-
chairs of its new North-East branches.
Suzanne Withrington, principal lecturer
for enterprise and business engagement
at Teesside University Business School,
has been appointed vice-chair of the
IoD’s North-East (South) branch. She will
work alongside recently appointed chair
Karl Pemberton of Thornaby-based Active
Chartered Financial Planners.
Natalia Blagburn, senior lecturer at
Northumbria University’s Newcastle
Business School, joins the IoD North-East
(North) branch, where she will work closely
with award-winning entrepreneur Ammar
Mirza CBE, who was appointed branch chair
earlier this year.
Both appointments follow the merger of
the IoD’s Yorkshire and North-East regions.
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