This week’s North West appointments

David Wroe, Katheryn Cassel, Mulbury Homes

Cheshire housing developer Mulbury Homes has appointed David Wroe as head of partnerships and regeneration.

David, who previously worked for Keep Moat as regional managing director, has over 20-years’ experience in the regeneration and development of residential property schemes.

Mulbury has also appointed office manager Kathryn Cassel from Trafford Housing Trust where she co-ordinated the organisation’s Right to Buy scheme.

Greg Mulligan, a director at Mulbury Homes, said: “It is a real coup for us to attract someone with David’s skills and experience in the housing sector. We operate in a relationships business and David’s ability to create and develop partnerships will help us to be a strong, stable and successful business. “Kat is also vastly experienced within the affordable housing and construction sectors and will offer valuable support and advice to the management team.”

Helen Law, Woodcocks Haworth and Nuttall

Woodcocks Haworth and Nuttall has appointed Helen Law to its specialist private client department. Helen is an experienced solicitor and is based at the firm’s Haslingden office. She joins Woodcocks Haworth and Nuttall having previously worked at Fieldings Porter in Bolton where she was Head of the Private Client Department. Helen said: “It gives me great pleasure to return to WHN and help boost its legal services for individuals. “The firm is highly regarded and boasts trusted and experienced advisers. It’s great to know that I am assisting in giving local people access to the very best legal advice, whether they want to make a will or wish to protect their financial security.”

Carl Cleaver, Lattimer

Southport manufacturer Lattimer has appointed Carl Cleaver as business development manager. Carl has more than 25 years’ experience in the manufacture and supply of Tier 1 and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) products to the automotive and other sectors.

Carl: “The brief I have been given by Lattimer is a mouth-watering opportunity “More than 80pc of the firm’s sales are currently within the niche bottled glass manufacturing sector. It exports to more than 50 countries each year. “However, the level of skill and expertise the firm offers as an all-round precision machinist make it hugely attractive to other sectors. Lattimer’s manufacturing and design capability is incredibly diverse - it makes more than 20,000 component parts. It is essentially a one-stop-shop providing design, manufacture and troubleshooting for highly complex engineering issues, from individual products to sub and full assemblies.”

Martyn Kendrick, Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking

Martyn Kendrick has been appointed as North West area director for the Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking.

Martyn Kendrick has taken up the post after previously holding positions across Yorkshire over his 26 years with the bank.

He will now head up relationship management teams supporting SMEs with a turnover up to £25 million from Carlisle to Stoke, including Liverpool, Manchester and Preston.

Martyn said: “The North West has a wide range of businesses, which is why we have teams of dedicated sector specialists to cater for the unique needs of each type of customer.

“The strength of the North West economy was confirmed by the latest Lloyds Bank Regional PMI survey, which revealed that private sector growth across the North West exceeded the UK national average in August, and the regions’ firms had remained in growth since the beginning of 2013.

“As part of the latest Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking SME Charter, we have pledged to help 100,000 news businesses to start up, and over the past three years our net lending to SMEs has grown by five per cent year-on-year.”

Sir Nigel Knowles, Zeus Capital

Manchester investment banking boutique Zeus Capital has appointed Sir Nigel Knowles as chairman.

Sir Nigel currently holds the position of global co-chief executive officer and managing partner of DLA Piper.

Sir Nigel Knowles said: “Having led the recent series of IPOs with the likes of Conviviality, Boohoo and DX Group, it is an exciting time to be joining Zeus Capital. Its pipeline of deals is just as impressive and I look forward to adding to the considerable expertise Zeus Capital already has at its disposal.”

Amanda Marwood, Harrison Drury

Harrison Drury has appointed Amanda Marwood to its South Lakes and Lancashire legal team.

Amanda joins the firm as an associate after four years with Thomson Hayton Winkley in Cumbria. Previously she worked for Temple Heelis, also based in Cumbria. She specialises in all aspects of property acquisitions and sales, commercial leases, security of tenure issues, conditional contracts, secured lending and development issues. John Chesworth, managing director of Harrison Drury, said: “This appointment further strengthens our commercial expertise in North Lancashire and South Lakes. Amanda brings a wealth of additional experience to the team in Garstang and we are pleased to have secured her services.”