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Richard Wyatt steps down today as executive chairman of Panmure Gordon, the Aim-listed UK stockbroker and corporate advice firm, to concentrate on Panmure Capital, its joint venture fund. He hands [...]

Asda, the struggling supermarket group, is to lose a senior executive to Waitrose, owned by the John Lewis Partnership, as it looks to expand its operations. Richard Hodgson is trading [...]

Bernard Asher, former chairman of HSBC Investment Bank, is lending his gravitas to Debts.co.uk, the debt advice specialist, as its new non-executive chairman. Mr Asher, 70, joins as the first [...]

Accountancy firm BDOStoy Hayward has named Simon Bevan, the numbers super sleuth, as national head of its fraud servicesunit. Mr Bevan has more than 23 years' experience in investigating fraud. [...]

KPMG has created the new role of head of healthcare M&A as it sees the sector as a growth area, and has hired Andrew Nicholson to do the job. Nick [...]

Essentially Group, the sports marketing, management and television production service, which listed on Aim in May, has named Michael Bucks as its new non-executive director. The company advises both Jenson [...]

Mark Graham has taken over from Ted Noble as head of finance for Chaucer Holdings, the specialist Lloyd's insurer. Mr Noble has now retired as finance director, while Mr Graham, [...]

PwC has promoted Mark Hudson, who has held operational roles with Iceland and Welcome Break, to lead its UK retail and consumer sector team. Mr Hudson joined the firm as [...]

Eon UK, which runs Powergen, the UK's second- largest energy retailer, has managed to persuade Jim Macdonald to once again leave his native Edinburgh for England. In August, he will [...]

Egon Zehnder International, the largest search company in Europe, has elected John Grumbar as executive chairman to succeed Daniel Meiland who retires in October, aged 62. Mr Grumbar, who will [...]

Losing one chief executive in a year is unfortunate, losing two seems careless. Vividas, the developer and provider of video streaming technology, has lost Richard Collins, who was appointed to [...]

Jeffrey Edell, former chairman of the MySpace owner Intermix Media, has succeeded Brad Brooks as chief operating officer of DIC Entertainment, the Aim-listed intellectual property company that owns the rights [...]

The change management skills of Gill Rider, formerly of Accenture, will be called into play in a new role as non-executive director of De La Rue, the world's largest private [...]

Two women are moving up the career ladder at JPMorgan where Robin Lawther, a managing director at the bank, is moving up to lead the investment banking coverage business in [...]

David Cook, Choice Hotels Europe chief executive, is checking out early from the company for medical reasons. He will retire at the end of November following his 60th birthday. The [...]

Severn Trent, Britain's second biggest water company, which reports its results on Tuesday (see below) is bidding farewell to Martin Flower, deputy chairman who will not be replaced. Mr Flower, [...]

Compass Group, the contract caterer, has also created a new job and hired management consultant Michael Young as director of corporate policy and communications. The post is expected to aid [...]

Brambles, the Anglo- Australian logistics operator, is continuing to renew its board with the addition of three new non-executive directors. Tony Froggatt, chief executive of Scottish & Newcastle, Carolyn Kay, [...]

Karen Prior is returning to Town Centre Securities,the Leeds-based property company, to take upthe post of financedirector and company secretary. Ms Prior, 45, was last at TCS five years ago [...]

Richard Gudgeon has moved swiftly into the role of finance director and company secretary at D1 Oils, the Aim-listed biofuels company, where he has held the job on an interim [...]

A new team is in charge of Ibis Project Services, the Henley-based affordable housing project management service, following a management buy-in. Aidan Mills-Thomas, who becomes chief executive, has acquired a [...]

John Lewis Partnership has created the new position of head of public affairs in a bid to have more input into government policy. Charlotte Wright, public affairs practitioner and former [...]

Deloitte is fleshing out its newly created operations due diligence team with two appointments from Ernst & Young as demand for due diligence from private equity houses increases. Matt Penny [...]

Baroness Hogg, one of the City's superwomen and chairman of 3i, has retired as deputy chairman of GKN, the FTSE 250 engineering group. She stepped down after nine years' service [...]

Aviva, Britain's biggest insurer, has taken on its first group security and crisis management specialist as its business expands. Paul Wood joins the firm as group business protection director to [...]

Bob Davies, former chief executive of Arriva, is to retain an association with power by joining the board of British Energy, the country's largest nuclear power generator, as a non-executive [...]

LTG Technologies, the Aim-traded metal decorating and packing services group, has abolished the post of finance director, handing responsibility for the function to Alistair Rae, the new chief executive. Michael [...]

EasyGroup entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou has passed the steerage of his no-frills cruise line to a new captain. Gwyn Hughes, a former managing director of P&O Cruises, has taken over as [...]

Douglas Hurt is joining engineering group IMI, from GlaxoSmithKline, to succeed Trevor Slack as finance director. Mr Hurt, 49, joins onMay 1 and will take over as finance director two [...]

Robert Hollinshead is to step down as chief executive of Newcastle Building Society, the UK's 13th largest, at the end of June, because of poor health. Colin Seccombe, 53, the [...]

Lord Turnbull has completed his portfolio with the first non-executive board appointment at Arup, the building design and engineering company. Lord Turnbull, 61, was cabinet secretary and head of the [...]

Simon Brookhouse, formerly of Merrill Lynch, has returned to the City after a break to fill the newly created role of deputy head of equities at HSBC Corporate, Investment Banking [...]

Colin McKinlay has departed Thomas Cook and arrived at a new destination as group finance director of Travelzest, the tour operator. His newly created role is a key part of [...]

Derek Hine's successor as chief executive of Jessops, the photographic equipment retailer, will no doubt click into place. Chris Langley will alter his focus from chief operating officer to the [...]

Fishworks, the Aim-listed restaurant and fishmongers group, has restructured its board. Mitch Tonks, the company's founder, moves from executive director to chief executive while current incumbent Roy Morris becomes executive [...]

Hobbs, the upmarket fashion chain, is stepping into spring with a new finance director, who joins from Marks and Spencer. Nicky Dulieu was finance director of M&S's food division and, [...]

Nicholas Porter, who founded Unite, the student accommodation company, in 1991, will hand over the chief executive post to Mark Allan, chief financial officer, at the end of this year. [...]

Nomura International has completed a programme of senior appointments in investment banking with the hire of Fabio Massimo Genovese, from UBS, as the London-based head of financial institutions. He joins [...]

KPMG Forensic has hired a crack investigative duo - Paul Walker as director and head of its forensic technology facility, and Nicolas Mallison to lead advanced predictive data analytics. Both [...]

Yahoo Europe is aiming to boost its on-line content with two new media-savvy senior appointments. Simon Gunning, from Celador International and Lloyd Shepherd, from Guardian Newspapers, join the London-based Yahoo [...]

Cadbury Schweppes, the international drinks group, is adding a dash of Orange to its managerial mix. Sanjiv Ahuja, chief executive officer of Orange, France Telecom's mobile phone unit, will join [...]

The best things, they say, come in small packages, and Graeme Walker is to become the finance director of a company whose innovation in things small has seen it entered [...]

Daniel Frigo is moving further into the picture following his promotion to general manager of Europe, Middle East and Africa for Buena Vista International, the Walt Disney Company's film distribution [...]