PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
■ The Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA) has made three changes to its leadership team.
Hannah Davies has been appointed as its deputy chief executive officer, Ruth Boston has been promoted to head of communications, and Alexis Darby becomes head of public affairs.
Ms Davies has taken on the role alongside her duties as executive director of Health Equity North. She joined the NHSA in 2016 leading its communications and public affairs work. Since 2018 she has supported the development of the alliance’s health inequalities programme, with outputs including seminal work such as the Health for Wealth, Child of the North and Covid-19 reports.
In her new role Ms Davies will work with NHSA chief executive Dr Séamus O’Neill to support governance, strategy and operational delivery on behalf of the NHSA member organisations.
Meanwhile Ms Boston has worked for the NHSA for five years, following a career in journalism and public relations, and Ms Darby joined the organisation in 2022 after working for MPs and political parties.
■ Silverstone Building Consultancy has appointed two new surveyors.
The chartered building surveyor and project manager, with offices in Newcastle, Leeds and London, has welcomed Nathan Courtier as graduate building surveyor and Brad Tedstill as a trainee building surveyor.
Mr Courtier, who was previously a trainee building surveyor at Day Cummins and a site manager at Courtier Construction, is nearing completion of a master’s degree in building surveying and is a 2016 Northumbria University undergraduate. Mr Tedstill, who is in the third year of a building surveying degree at Northumbria University and will be employed at Silverstone for 12 months, is supporting the whole team on dilapidations, contract administration and measured surveys.
■ Redgate Lodge Motor Group has expanded its senior team with the appointment of Paul Keighley to a new position of operations director. The family-owned used car dealer group, which has its main dealership at Shiremoor in North Tyneside has brought in the well-known regional motor industry professional as part of its plans to expand. He brings over four decades’ industry experience to Redgate, and has held senior roles with leading dealer groups and brands including Audi Colebrook & Burgess, Porsche & Bentley JCT 600 and the former Newcastle-based Benfield Motor Group.
■ Newcastle based LightOx Ltd has appointed Rebecca Crow as head of projects. The firm is developing therapeutic treatments, including light activated chemotherapy for early-stage oral cancer, and Ms Crow’s arrival takes the life sciences business to a team of 11 as they move into larger offices at their city centre base in Newcastle.
■ Commercial law firm Square One Law has recruited a team of four employment law specialists to bolster its Tees Valley office.
Employment partner Liz Casey will co-ordinate the further development of the firm’s Tees Valley presence while continuing to support existing business and client relationships alongside senior associates Lauren Mills and Joanne McHale-Young and paralegal, Debbie Howes.
The four had all previously worked together at law firm Knights, which was formerly Archers Law LLP.
■ Tech consultancy Opencast has appointed Ros Grindrod as its new head of security services.
Ms Grindrod has joined the company from global cyber security service provider LRQA Nettitude, where she was virtual chief information security officer (VCISO). She will help Opencast and its clients comply with regulation, develop best practice in data security – and build in further protection from potential future online attacks.
Originally from Gloucestershire, Ms Grindrod has always had an interest in technology – she built her own HTML website using an old iMac aged 10. But she couldn’t see a career pathway into the tech sector, so after completing a chemistry degree at the University of Bristol, she joined global professional services company Deloitte, initially as an auditor.
She moved into Deloitte’s cyber security team, working on then leading multi-million pound projects, with work on ethical hacking, threat modelling and testing organisations’ online security systems. After more than three years at Deloitte, Ros joined managed services consultancy ZDL, then moved on to LRQA Nettitude.