Appointments: All change as Trading Floor restructures

The UK's largest multi-channel transactional data provider, The Trading Floor, has undergone a significant restructure and promoted two senior employees to director level, as well as creating three dedicated business units.
By The Newsroom
Published 5th Jan 2010, 12:03 BST
Updated 5th Jan 2010, 12:04 BST

Zoe Vine has been promoted to the position of director of data services and Jonathan Fallows to director of IT.

Managing director Chris McDonald has moved into a joint role and becomes head of sales across all companies within the group, which also includes AA Warranty, Business & Domestic and TheComparisons.com

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The new business units cover sales, which will be headed by Ben Antcliff, client development, which will be led by Wane Borg and Data Partnerships, headed by David Humphreys.

Financial planning firm Lawrence Scoffield has announced three new senior appointments as part of its growth plans.

Jessica Kelly will specialise in commercial property insurance and Spencer Bennett has joined as an experienced independent financial adviser. David Black has been promoted from finance manager to become the Leeds-based group's first finance director.

Building contractor Strategic Team Group has appointed Farmida Ishaq as human resources manager as it prepares to celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2010. She will be responsible for designing and delivering new employment practices and strategies. The new role will see her interpreting business needs and developing focused and pragmatic HR solutions.

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In addition, she will develop the Castleford-based company's diversity charter in line with the Equality Bill.

Family law firm Jones Myers has appointed family law specialist Norman Taylor.

He joins the Leeds firm's finance team from Zermansky & Partners where he was senior partner and head of family law. He brings with him considerable expertise in financial issues arising from family and relationship breakdown.

Mr Taylor is known both nationally and locally as an enthusiastic advocate of non-confrontational, solution-based resolution of family issues. He is a founder member of the Leeds Collaborative Family Law practice group and a long-standing member of Resolution, the national family lawyers association.

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The Kingston Veterinary Group has appointed five new vets as part of its continuing expansion.

Lucy Middleton and Paul Salmon have been assigned to the group's newly-opened surgery on Holderness Road in Hull. Fiona Burchill is working at the city's Beverley Road surgery, while Joanne Black is at the Cottingham practice and Ryan Lotter is based at Kingston's Park Street headquarters in Hull. The group now has a total of 44 staff including 12 vets based at four practices, with a fifth due to open in Anlaby, Hull, in February 2010.

Commercial law firm Lupton Fawcett has promoted Robert Tranter, a commercial litigation specialist in the firm's Sheffield office, to the position of associate.

He was head of litigation at the niche firm Hackett Windle before its acquisition by Lupton Fawcett in August 2009.

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Facilities management company Powerminster Gleeson Services has appointed Will Goodwin as business development manager for the South. He was previously sales manager for property service provider Sitex Orbis, developing business opportunities with local authorities and housing associations.

Sheffield-based Powerminster has its southern regional office in Ashford, Kent.

Law firm DWF has boosted its Leeds office with the appointment of two new partners. Andrew Breckenridge, who specialises in finance and banking disputes, joins from the Salisbury law firm Parker Bullen.

Alan Herbert, who has specialised in property disputes for more than 20 years, joins from Shulmans in Leeds.