CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS
Berrymans Lace Mawer
The law firm has hired Chris Fitton to its professional indemnity team as a partner.
Fitton joins from rival Pinsent Masons, where he was also a partner and headed up its Birmingham insurance team. He specialises in resolving professional negligence claims against solicitors and financial intermediaries, with clients including Lloyd’s underwriters, composite insurers, IFAs and life offices.
State Street
The financial services group has appointed Linda Morsia as head of trustee customer management for its trustees business.
Morsia joins from the Royal Bank of Scotland, where she was head of sales and business development for the bank’s trustee and depository services.
She has over twenty years of experience in the sector and, in her new role, will be responsible for managing State Street’s UK trustee relationships.
Colliers
The real estate firm has appointed Geoffrey Bledin as an independent non-executive director.
Bledin, 56, is a chartered accountant and originally trained with Arthur Andersen. He worked as president and chief executive of the Equitable Trust Company from 1990 to 2007 and is currently also a director at the Firm Capital Mortgage Investment Fund.
SAB Miller
The pub group has appointed Mike Short, previously chief executive and managing director of its Czech subsidiary Plze&328;ský Prazdroj, to the newly-created role of senior vice president for industry affairs. Prior to that, Short was managing director of the group’s Hungarian subsidiary, Dreher Breweries, and spent six years on the board of SAB in South Africa.
In his new role, he will steer the development of the group’s policies on alcohol self-regulation, industry accountability and the impact of legislation.
One Alfred Place
The private business club has appointed Sharon Brittan, one of its founder investors, as its new chief executive after Rob Shreeve decided to step down to pursue new business interests.
Brittan has been involved with the club since its inception and has a raft of experience in the sector, having also formerly created the Britannia Row business portfolio with Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, who is also an investor in One Alfred Place.
Henderson Morley
Professor Anant Sharma has been appointed to the scientific advisory board at the Aim-quoted biotech firm.
Sharma has published over 40 works in the field of eye surgery and disease, and is an ophthalmic surgeon at the Moorfields Eye Hospital in Bedford.