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This week’s North West appointments

Gareth Edwards, Laura Cullen, Andrew Taylor, Ben Hewes and Emma Rawlinson, Freshfield

Lancashire-based marketing communications consultancy, Freshfield, has made five senior promotions and is planning further recruitment to support ongoing growth.

Within the PR team, Andrew Taylor, Ben Hewes and Emma Rawlinson have all been promoted to the role of senior PR consultant, while Laura Cullen steps up to become senior PR executive.

Meanwhile, in Freshfield’s creative services team, Gareth Edwards has been promoted to the role of senior branding and designconsultant.

Simon Turner, managing director at Freshfield, said: “Our decision to promote is always based on the ability of people to grow intellectually and build genuine partnerships with clients. Ben, Andrew, Emma, Laura and Gareth have consistently shown great dedication to helping our clients achieve marketing success and are viewed as a trusted source of advice.

“As we keep investing into our business we’re being presented with many quality new business opportunities and this raises the need to find talented people who fit our values.”

David Bertram, Citypress

Citypress, the integrated communications agency, has bolstered its growing business practice with the appointment of a new consultant.

David Bertram joins the agency as account manager, and will be based at its headquarters in Manchester.

Previously of The Scott Partnership, where he worked with clients across the software, pharmaceuticals and healthcare sectors, David will now help to support a range of Citypress’ B2B accounts, including Lex Autolease, arvato and Oliver Valves.

Ricky Ambury, director at Citypress, said: “David joins us during a period of significant growth across our B2B and corporate-brand practice. His experience in delivering insight-driven, integrated campaigns fits neatly with our approach.”

Nigel Lanceley, North West Cancer Research

Merseyside Chartered Accountant has been named the new chairman of the North West’s only locally based cancer research charity.

Nigel Lanceley, a director at the Liverpool office of Investec Wealth and Investment will take the reins at North West Cancer Research after working with the charity since 2013.

He succeeds Michael Potts, who has been involved in the charity in a senior capacity for 22 years, nearly 11 of which have been spent as Chairman covering two stints. However Michael will now return to his previous role of President.

In his new role as Chairman, Nigel hopes to build on the strong foundations that Michael has put in place during his time with NWCR, continuing the charity’s clear focus on fundraising, so it can secure as much money as possible and continue to support cancer research.

NWCR funds vital research into the understanding of cancer and how better to detect, treat and prevent it at research centres at the University of Liverpool, Bangor University and the University of Lancaster. The cancer research which it supports directly benefits people living in the North West.

Nigel, who became a trustee of NWCR in September 2012 said: “I would like to take this opportunity to thank Michael for his continued hard work and dedication to help drive NWCR towards becoming the successful charity it is today.

“Under his strong leadership and the executive team at NWCR, there have been some significant changes over the last two years, following the recent merger with Clatterbridge Cancer Research, new headquarters and new team members.

“This is just the beginning of our development as a charity. Over the next 12 months, our main focus will be on fundraising, as we seek to attract new supporters and fundraisers to help us meet the ever increasing demand for cancer research.

“Thanks to the help of our dedicated network of fundraisers and supporters, we can raise funds at the lowest possible cost to ensure as much money as possible goes into cancer research.”

Anne Jackson, CEO of NWCR added: “Fundraising is the important part of what we do – without it we simply could not support our investment in life saving cancer research. We are immensely grateful to Michael Potts and are looking forward to working with Nigel in his new role, helping to take the charity further and achieve our fundraising and research goals.”

John Kirkpatrick, Refrigerant Solutions

Refrigerant Solutions (RefSols), the Liverpool-based company which has developed a more environmentally-friendly range of refrigerant gases, has appointed John Kirkpatrick as commercial director.

John has had a long career within the chemicals industry, initially working at ICI and most recently as technical sales manager at Mexichem on the Wirral. His appointment follows the recent £750k investment in RefSols by The North West Fund for Mezzanine, managed by Enterprise Ventures.

John’s appointment allows for the eventual retirement of RefSols’ founder, the award-winning investor John Poole, although he will continue in his role as CEO for the immediate future.

RefSols provides replacements for the ozone-depleting gases which are currently used in refrigeration and air conditioning systems and which are being phased out worldwide.

Will Clark of Enterprise Ventures, which manages The North West Fund for Mezzanine, said: “John Kirkpatrick has an in-depth knowledge of the chemical industry and the regulatory environment and his experience makes him ideally suited to take RefSols forward. His global network of contacts will help the company take advantage of the worldwide market for replacement refrigerant gases and boost its export sales.”

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