This week's North East appointments

Richard Shield, H&H Land & Estates

H&H Land & Estates has appointed Richard Shield to its Durham office as director of residential and commercial development.

In this newly created position for the company, Richard will work closely alongside MD Colin Tomlinson and director David Quayle and the rest of the H&H Land & Estates team across nine offices.

Richard brings with him a wealth of planning and development experience. Trained as a land agent and MRICS qualified, he is a registered valuer and moved into commercial agency and development work in 2004, where this has been his focus for 15 years.

He commented on his appointment: “This is a great opportunity and H&H Land & Estates is a progressive organisation.

“Working across all of the geographical areas in which we operate, I am looking forward to developing this specialist area for the company and to talking to clients to understand their needs and assessing sites as to the opportunities they offer.”

Bradley Hall Chartered Surveyors

Property firm Bradley Hall has welcomed six new members of staff during a period of significant growth.

The company now has 51 members of staff across its operations in Alnwick, Morpeth, Hexham, Gosforth, Newcastle City Centre, Sunderland and Durham.

Appointments include chartered surveyor Angus Todd, graduate surveyor Callum Armstrong, lettings manager Rhys Blackburn, valuations manager Nigel Goodrum, senior mortgage protection advisor Gary Dobson and property executive Henry Murray.

Neil Hart, group managing director at the firm, said: “These strategic new appointments are set to strengthen our operations across the company. It is a priority of ours to recruit the best talent in the region to support our current and future growth and client base.

“The growth of our team further cements us as a market leader in our field and reinforces our position as one of the largest regional property firms in the North East.”

Nicole de Vega, Poptop

Newcastle-based online events booking platform Poptop has appointed Nicole de Vega to the newly-created role of head of marketing.

Nicole has over 20 years of marketing experience in the digital technology sector having spent the early part of her career with Sage UK.

More recently, she led marketing operations at email marketing firm communicator, where she helped to grow the business until its acquisition, and latterly at construction specification platform firm NBS, where she helped launch its new cloud-based platform.

In her new role, she will be leading Poptop’s ambitious growth plans. Her appointment follows the £615k investment in the company by the business angel network Dow Schofield Watts Angels (DSW Angels) and Northstar Ventures in December 2018.

Poptop’s CEO, Eugene Shestopal, added: “Nicole brings a wealth of experience in technology marketing which will be invaluable in supporting our continued growth in the UK market. I look forward to working with her to drive our business forward.”

Maggie Harris, Nuffield Health Tees

Nuffield Health Tees Hospital has appointed Maggie Harris as a matron.

Maggie’s varied career has seen her work her way from staff nurse to matron within the North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust, specialising as an orthopaedic theatre nurse and theatre sister for over 20 years.

Her hands-on experience saw her move into a managerial position within the Trust as a complaints and claims manager in 2010, before returning to patient-focused healthcare as an outpatient matron prior to joining Nuffield Health in July 2019.

In her new role, Maggie will be responsible for managing and coordinating the hospital’s domestic and medical teams to ensure that the hospital remains clinically safe and maintains its incredibly high standards of patient care.

She said: “I am delighted to have been offered the opportunity to join the team at Nuffield Health Tees Hospital.

“Having worked in the local NHS Trust for many years, I am very familiar with Nuffield Health as an independent healthcare provider and I have a number of friends and former colleagues who have chosen to work for Nuffield who have never looked back.

“I have big shoes to fill in my role as matron, but I am really excited at the opportunity to work alongside such an experienced and passionate team.”

The Encore Group

The Encore Group has appointed eight new members across its divisions at Encore Envelopes and Encore Packaging Solutions in Peterlee and Washington.

Joining Encore Envelopes is business development manager, Brett Hopper and trainee production planner Paul Wrightson.

After 35 years in the envelope industry, Brett brings with him a wealth of experience having worked at a director-level in key roles at Lockie Envelopes, Grosvenor Print and Design and Opal Envelopes.

Encore Packaging has taken on two business development managers Graham Tattam and Chris Johns, business development support manager Sean Mattimore, an estimator Steve White, pre-production administrator Shannon Taylor and production and quality support coordinator Megan Heron (both pictured).

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