City Moves for 25 October 2016 | Who’s switching jobs
Travelodge
Hotel chain Travelodge has appointed Hannah Thomson to the position of people director. She will take up her new role from 1 November. Hannah will report directly to the chief executive Peter Gowers and joins the Travelodge operating board. Hannah began her career with the John Lewis Partnership businesses, John Lewis and Waitrose, where she held a range of roles in operations and human resources, including time as head of the group’s HR transformation programme and head of HR for the group functions. Following her time with John Lewis, Hannah held senior HR roles with the car rental operator Avis / Budget UK, the Anglo-French self-storage operator Safestore plc and the Wyevale Garden Centres group.
EY
EY has appointed Rosemary Martin to global independent non-executive. Rosemary is group general counsel and company secretary of Vodafone Group. She is also an advisory board member of the Wesleyan Group of Companies and the Oxford Internet Institute. Rosemary has a seat on the Listing Authority Advisory Panel of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). She previously served as CEO of the Practical Law Group having spent 11 years with Reuters Group in various company secretary and legal roles, with the last five years as group general counsel and company secretary. Before joining Reuters she was a partner with Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw. Rosemary was admitted as a solicitor in 1984. She has been a non-executive director of HSBC Bank (the European arm of HSBC Group) for the past 10 years and a member of The Corporate Governance Advisory Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales for a five-year term.
E.surv
Katie Boyes-Barker has been appointed as the customer proposition manager for private survey services at E.surv, one of the UK’s largest residential chartered surveyors. The business works with a number of partners across the property industry to service referrals for private survey requests. Within the new role, Katie has responsibility for the development of the private survey proposition that E.surv provides to its strategic partners. Leveraging e.surv’s expertise in residential surveying and property risk management, the role will focus on the importance of comprehensive, independent survey reports in the house buying process.