This week's London appointments

Naren Patel, inurface group

Experiential technology business inurface group has announced Naren Patel has joined its businesses advisory board.

With over twenty years of experience heading up operations within the technology and media industry, Naren will help drive growth and support the business’s management team with its continued development.

Naren has previously worked at Primesight, launched Geoprove Limited, and built up Media For All.

Josh Bunce, CEO and founder of inurface, commented: “We are delighted to be welcoming Naren to inurface media. Naren’s knowledge of the DOOH industry, combined with his 20 years’ worth of experience in the technology and media industries will prove invaluable to the inurface team.”

Hartley Foster, Andrew Noble and Dominic Hodge, Addington Chambers

Addington Chambers has announced the appointment of one new member and two associate members.

Hartley Foster, head of tax disputes at law firm Fieldfisher has joined as a member.

Hartley had been head of the tax disputes practice at law firm Fieldfisher since 2012, when he established the department. He has specialised in contentious tax matters for over 20 years; during which time he acted on over 60 reported cases, including four House of Lords and Supreme Court cases and five references to the CJEU.

Hartley focuses on the technical and tactical management of enquiries by, and disputes with, HMRC. He undertakes work in relation to all taxes, and has particular expertise in tax avoidance, judicial review and professional negligence claims relating to tax.

Hartley started his professional career at Pump Court Tax Chambers. Joining Addington Chambers is a return to the Bar that will enable Hartley to specialise on the advocacy of tax matters, an aspect of the work that he has always relished.

Andrew Noble is an experienced barrister and chartered arbitrator, specialising in commercial chancery litigation, with emphasis on all aspects of property and construction (including extension of time, money and defects claims), associated professional liability and insolvency cases, before specialist judges, arbitral tribunals and in adjudications.

Dominic Hodge practises in all areas relating to tax and trusts but has a particular interest in international tax and contentious trust matters. In addition, Dominic’s advisory, arbitration, and litigation practice includes the areas of Chancery and commercial.

Dominic was called to the Bar in South Africa in 2011, admitted as an Attorney and Counselor at Law in New York State, U.S., in 2016 and called to the Bar of England and Wales by Lincoln’s Inn in 2018. He boosts Addington’s expertise in international taxation and Chancery / commercial matters.

Adrian Shipwright, joint head of chambers, said: “We are delighted with all our new members. Hartley is widely recognised as one of the UK’s leading contentious tax practitioners, with a wealth of experience in establishing and managing tax disputes practices at solicitors’ firms.

“This is experience that is invaluable to Addington. It reinforces our current experience in terms of providing support to accountants and law firms advising their clients on complex tax matters. We are delighted that we have attracted a practitioner of Hartley’s calibre to our team.”

Lucy McGrath, Auth0

Identity platform Auth0 has announced that it has appointed Lucy McGrath as its first vice president of privacy.

Lucy is an international data privacy lawyer and will be responsible for enabling Auth0 and its customers to continue to solve dynamic privacy challenges and protect the users and other humans impacted by their work.

She has 20 years of diverse data privacy experience working with Fortune 500 brands, including Thermo Fisher Scientific, Promontory Financial Group (an IBM Company), NBCUniversal, Salesforce, and TJX Europe. As Auth0’s VP of Privacy, she will lead global data privacy programmes, further embed privacy-by-design principles into Auth0’s products and processes, and continue to shape a culture of privacy for the company and its customers.

Lucy commented: “It was clear from Auth0’s values that the company cares about human beings—which is what drew me to this role. T

“The opportunity to connect with and support an increasing number of customers across diverse sectors and regions is very exciting.”

Richard Davies, Netcompany

Global IT services provider Netcompany has appointed Richard Davies as country managing partner.

As country managing partner, Richard will be responsible for leading the team to meet and exceed newly set business goals for the UK.

With over 20 years’ experience of leading major digital innovation and digital transformation projects, Richard will work closely with existing customers and engage new relationships across key markets.

Prior to joining Netcompany, Richard was VP at DXC Technology where he led digital business initiatives across clients in Europe as well as being managing director of DXC’s Leading Edge Forum Programme (LEF).

Richard commented: “I’m thrilled to be joining the team here in the UK at such a key time for the company, with some very exciting society-critical customer projects coming to fruition.

“The Netcompany ethos of delivering proven, business-critical solutions at scale, fast, to achieve true digital transformation and world-class, user-friendly, digital services for citizens and businesses; aligns exactly with my own background and beliefs.

“I’ll be working hard with the team to refine Netcompany’s focus in the UK and to engage new and existing customer relationships across key markets.”

Duncan Tatton-Brown, Cazoo

Online car retailer Cazoo has announced that Duncan Tatton-Brown will be joining its board as a non-executive director.

Duncan was most recently chief financial officer of Ocado Group from 2012 until 2020 where he remains a Senior Advisor to the Board. Prior to joining Ocado, he has held the CFO roles at Fitness First Plc, Kingfisher Plc, B&Q Plc and Virgin Entertainment Group.

Duncan will become senior independent director and audit committee chair at Cazoo. He currently serves on the board of Trainline and was formerly a non-executive director at ZPG Plc and Rentokil Initial Plc.

Alex Chesterman OBE, founder and CEO of Cazoo, said: “I am delighted that Duncan will be joining the Cazoo Board once we become listed on the NYSE.

“His experience in helping to build large consumer-facing businesses over many years will be invaluable as we continue to transform the car buying experience for consumers across the UK and Europe.”

Duncan added: “I am really excited to be joining the Cazoo Board and to be working with Alex and his team.

“There are some very clear parallels with my other recent experiences and I am looking forward to helping shape Cazoo’s mission to digitally disrupt one of the largest retail markets in Europe, used cars, worth over $700bn annually.

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