This week’s North East appointments: Featuring North East LEP, Seriös and durhamlane

This week’s round up of North East appointments, in association with the North of Tyne Combined Authority Good Work Pledge includes the North East LEP, Seriös Group and durhamlane. Read on to find out more.

Colin Hewitt and Phil Redman, North East LEP

The North East Local Enterprise Partnership has announced the appointment of two new board members. Colin Hewitt and Phil Redman will join the board as non-executive directors as the North East LEP moves forward with a “refreshed role and a continued commitment to create more and better jobs”.

Colin Hewitt is a senior partner of Ward Hadaway LLP. He is a lawyer of some 40 years standing and his expertise covers both commercial and public sector work. Phil Redman is Area Director of Mott MacDonald. He brings with him a wealth of business experience and a deep passion for the North East.

Colin Hewitt, senior partner of Ward Hadaway LLP (Pictured right), commented: “I am delighted to join the LEP Board. This is an incredibly important time in the economic development of the North East as businesses face both challenges and opportunities.

“I look forward to supporting the LEP in its role as a proud ambassador for the North East business community as it continues its mission to create more and better jobs for the region.”

Phil Redman, area director of Mott MacDonald (Pictured left), added: “As a North East LEP Board member, I am eager to put my knowledge, experience, and skills to work in supporting the continued development of our region. These are exciting times and I look forward to offering my support to realise the opportunities in front of us.”

Lucy Winskell OBE, chair of the North East LEP, said: “Both Colin and Phil are highly-respected business leaders with a strong connection to the North East and a deep understanding of our economy. They are incredibly motivated and driven to make our area an even better place to live, work and stay.”

Chris Stavers and Mark Fishwick, Seriös Group

Newcastle based data analytics and testing consultancy Seriös Group is set to maintain its rapid growth with the appointment of two additional board members. The company has welcomed Chris Stavers as sales director, alongside Mark Fishwick who joins as service delivery director after previously providing the firm with consultancy support.

After a period of healthy organic growth, Chris, who has previously held roles at Darchem Engineering, Elfab Limited and Carrs Engineering, takes up responsibility for overseeing the newly created sales function. His experience within engineering and manufacturing firms will stand Seriös Group in good stead as it eyes an expansion into the sector.

Mark joins Seriös Group following a period working with the firm as a consultant. A large part of his role will be ensuring that the appropriate skillset is deployed throughout the course of a project to maximise the benefits to a client.

Lee Rorison, chief executive officer at Seriös Group, commented: “The creation of these two key director roles is designed to support our continued expansion. We have plans for several other new roles and have started an aggressive recruitment drive to ensure we have the right mix of skills and experience to maintain our growth trajectory.”

Paul Davison, operations director at Seriös Group, added: “We continue to go from strength-to-strength, with significant client and project wins. However, we felt that the time was right to bring in a sales expert like Chris to allow us to capitalise on that momentum and deliver our scale-up ambitions.

“I am very pleased that Mark has come on board to support our project delivery having worked with us as a consultant. He has proven himself to be extremely capable and we’re all very excited to work with him to further improve the efficiency and deployment of our team’s skillset.”

Phil Cording and Abigail Dodwell, durhamlane

Outsourced sales and marketing agency, durhamlane, has appointed two senior specialists to support its continued growth. Phil Cording joins as enterprise account director to help drive growth of the firm’s customer base with Abigail Dodwell taking the role of senior marketing services manager to grow durhamlane’s client marketing division.

Phil joins from global product digitisation firm Digimarc, where he was account director. He brings with him over 28 years’ experience in sales and business development, working for start-ups including Eyretel, which evolved via acquisition into Verint, as well as globally footprinted business’s such Nortel Networks, IPC Information Systems and NICE.

Abigail Dodwell has been appointed as durhamlane’s senior marketing services manager and will head up the firm’s burgeoning marketing services division, with a core remit of generating demand and marketing qualified leads for durhamlane’s customers, and expanding marketing services to their wider customer base.

Abigail started her career in the film and media sector before moving to agency Blumilk as an account manager, where she specialised in marketing strategy and campaign and brand work across multiple sectors including utilities, infrastructure, education and leisure.

Commenting on her new appointment, Abigail said: “durhamlane has a solid track record in sales and has a growing reputation as a leading marketing specialist. I’m really excited to be joining the team to build on the company’s current marketing offering and help open doors to new markets and clients.”

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