This week's London appointments

Welcome to your weekly round-up of London appointments.

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Paul Edwards, delineate

The former TNS UK and Hall Partners UK CEO, Paul Edwards, has joined the board of research and insights firm, delineate.

Edwards holds several non-executive roles in global businesses and has served as a planning partner with Karmarama, recently acquired by Accenture.

He said: “The insight business is changing and we need to be more responsive to client needs for concise and timely help.”

delineate offers a simplified approach to client problems using a proprietary approach to develop, test, measure and turnaround research-informed brand and communications campaigns.

Liz Pierson, Squire Patton Boggs

Squire Patton Boggs has appointed Liz Pierson as a partner in its tax strategy and benefits practice group in London. Ms Pierson is joining the firm from Clifford Chance LLP where she was a director in the Incentives group.

Ms. Pierson advises on all aspects of executive remuneration, share schemes and incentives issues for both public and private companies in the UK and internationally. Providing advice on the implementation and operation of global share plans is a key focus of Ms Pierson’s work.

Bernhard Gilbey, tax strategy and benefits practice group leader, commented: “We’re very pleased to welcome Liz to the group and the firm. Our work on incentives for FTSE 100 and 250 and Fortune 500 companies has been a strategic focus for the practice for some time.

“Technically-sophisticated and with knowledge of the tax and regulatory environment for share incentives in key jurisdictions around the world, Liz is ideal to lead our share schemes and remuneration team as we continue to expand.”

Mark Batten, Picton

Picton, a property investment company, has announced that Mark Batten has been appointed as a non-executive director of the company.

Mark will in due course become chairman of the audit and risk committee, taking over this role from Robert Sinclair who will retire from the board in 2018, having agreed to stay on for a period to facilitate this transition.

With more than 25 years of experience in the property sector, Mark has recently retired from his position as a restructuring partner at PwC, where he led the UK Real Estate deals practice.

Nicholas Thompson, chairman of Picton, said: “We are delighted to welcome Mark to Picton… His extensive experience in financial services, real estate, corporate finance structuring and transactions will broaden the skill set of our board.”

Roger Fenwick, Metro Bank

Metro Bank has appointed Roger Fenwick as the company’s director of specialist sectors for its commercial business, responsible for expansion and development of the bank’s dedicated sector teams.

Reporting directly to Mark Stokes, managing director of commercial banking, Roger will oversee the bank’s healthcare, hospitality and leisure, insurance and financial services, and property teams.

Commenting on his appointment, Roger Fenwick added: “I’m thrilled to be joining the Metro Bank revolution at such an exciting time in the organisation’s story and look forward to providing businesses with the highest levels of support, expertise and service that they deserve.”