This week’s London appointments: Featuring DPP Planning, Bellway and more

This week’s round-up of London appointments includes DPP Planning, Bellway and Seedtag Read on to find out more…

Helen Marks - DPP Planning

DPP Planning, which has an office in London, has announced that highly experienced planning specialist Helen Marks has become a director and member of the business’ board. Helen will be responsible for supporting new and existing clients that are developing schemes predominantly in London and the South East.

She will have a particular focus on employment-generating property projects including offices, distribution and fulfilment centres. She joins DPP, which also has offices in Cardiff, Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle, after a year working as a consultant to the national planning consultancy.

With more than 25 years of experience in the planning industry in both the private and public sector, Helen began her career with Dumfries & Galloway Council, followed by four years with Newcastle City Council. She then moved to CBRE in London, working on projects including the Olympic Park Project, advising the London Development Agency.

Prior to joining DPP as a consultant in 2022, Helen spent almost three years with YoungsRPS where she specialised in providing planning advice on major commercial, residential and mixed-use developments. She also worked for a number of public sector clients including the Crown Estate and the Ministry of Defence.

Helen commented: “DPP has a very strong brand reputation and a team of very talented and experienced planners. I am very proud to join the business on a permanent basis as a director having enjoyed the past year supporting colleagues and clients on a consultant basis.

“Working alongside our London team and colleagues across the country I am looking forward to helping our clients deliver schemes that create jobs and add value to the region and its economy.”

Joe Day - Bellway

Bellway’s graduate programme has provided the perfect springboard into a career in construction for new land buyer Joe Day. Joe has just started in the role after completing two years as a land and planning graduate with the housebuilder’s South London division, based in Redhill, Surrey.

During the two-year programme, he has been involved in a range of tasks and projects including dealing with Registered Providers for the sale of Affordable Housing Units and assisting with site acquisitions involving market research, managing consultant teams of architects and engineers and valuing sites for acquisition.

Joe, who lives in South West London, commented: “The graduate programme has been so useful to me. I have gained so much confidence and have been able to oversee many different aspects of the business which has broadened my knowledge of the industry.

“My management team has also been incredibly supportive throughout and has made me feel very comfortable since the beginning. The programme has definitely solidified my desire to continue on this career path. I hope to continue progressing within Bellway and eventually become a Chartered Surveyor.”

Matt Hoad, land and planning director for Bellway South London, added: “The graduate programme is a great opportunity for Bellway to bring in new talent as well as helping boost the career prospects of young people looking to get into the industry.

“It is great to see graduates like Joe taking advantage of the experiences the scheme offers them and gaining promotion within the team on completion of the programme. We look forward to seeing Joseph’s career develop further with Bellway in his new role.”

(L - R): Seraphina Davey and Jana Eisenstein - Seedtag

Seedtag, a contextual advertising company, has announced two new hires, based in the UK office, to further bolster its senior leadership team.

In her new position as global SVP of publisher partnerships, Seraphina Davey will look to develop and deliver a global strategy to grow Seedtag’s premium inventory, while Jana Eisenstein, senior vice president of sales EMEA, will be responsible for advertising strategy, partnerships and activities across the region.

Seraphina Davey joins with over 15 years of publishing and advertising expertise, most recently leading the EMEA publisher business at Taboola. She will be tasked with securing inventory that will allow Seedtag to expand its full-stack contextual advertising offering, as well as unifying and standardising processes for sales and account management within the publisher team.

She commented: “Coming from a publisher background, it is hugely exciting for me to join a company that has spent nearly ten years building such a powerful advertising product that can be leveraged to tackle such a current and urgent challenge for publishers– cookie deprecation.”

Jana Eisenstein also joins Seedtag with a wealth of experience, with over 20 years in digital advertising and marketing technology spanning media, content and creative. She has previously had leadership roles at technology leaders Microsoft, Cap Gemini and ProSiebenSat1, as well as, having scaled pioneering ad technology businesses.

Jana added: “I am excited to join Seedtag at this pivotal time for the company and contextual advertising and to lead such a talented and successful team. It is a great opportunity to consolidate my media, creative and content experience with a market leader in contextual advertising.”

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