26 | Tees Business
TEES Business appointments
With over 10 years’ corporate finance
experience, Konrad Rutkowski has joned the
Wynyard-based company.
Originally from Coventry, Konrad has
worked on lead advisory and transaction
support assignments, which he gained
working for both accountancy firms and
specialist corporate finance boutiques,
specialising in transactions up to £30m.
Dawn Huntrod, Materials Processing
Institute
Dawn Huntrod has been appointed as
business development manager for the
SME Technology Centre at the Materials
Processing Institute.
Dawn, who previously worked for Redcar
& Cleveland Council’s enterprise team, now
has a wide range of responsibilities including
networking locally and nationally, running
workshops and engagement events within
MPI and looking at business development.
Charlie Nettle, AV Dawson
One of Teesside’s leading logistics
specialists has added to its number with the
appointment of the NECC’s former head
of marketing and bicentenary project
manager.
Middlesbrough-based AV Dawson has
appointed Charlie Nettle as its head of
marketing and business development to help
steer the business through its next phase of
growth.
Charlie joins the business from the North
East Chamber of Commerce (NECC), where
he was head of marketing for more than six
years.
Konrad Rutkowski, Evolution LLP
Tees accountancy practice Evolution has
appointed a new corporate finance director
as it adds to its ever-expanding team.
Stephen Elliott & Ged Flanagan,
Endeavour Partnership
Tees legal firm Endeavour Partnership has
made two key appointments in Stephen
Elliott and Ged Flanagan.
Stephen returns to Endeavour to head up
the growing employment department and will
be responsible for developing this side of the
business which deals with all aspects of HR
and employment law and practice, including
tribunal litigation, policies and procedures,
training and workplace crisis management.
While Ged, who counts the likes of
Stewart Downing as a client, has been
appointed as an associate in the commercial
litigation department and joins Endeavour
Partnership from North East law firm, Bond
Dickinson.
Tim Payne, Charles Clinkard
Tim Payne has been appointed to the newly
created role of trading director at familyowned footwear retailer Charles Clinkard.
The new role will see Tim – who was
shortlisted in the 2015 Institute of Directors’
(IoD) Young Director of the Year Award –
oversee the buying, merchandising and
online trading areas of the growing North
East-based business, which has 33 stores
across the UK and is about to move into
a new £3m head office and warehouse in
Middlesbrough.
Callum McKechnie, Icon Plastics
Tees firm Icon Plastics has demonstrated
its commitment to a workforce of the future
with the recruitment of a second apprentice.
Callum McKechnie, 17, who lives in Yarm,
has joined the Stockton-based precision
plastic injection moulding company as a
business administration apprentice after
leaving Conyers School.
Callum is pictured with Icon operations
director Phil Walker.
Lesley Lock, Nuffield Health Tees Hospital
Nuffield Health Tees Hospital has appointed
new hospital director Lesley Lock.
Former pathologist Lesley has joined
Nuffield Health to take forwar