Appointments

Investment management firm Trillium Asset Management has appointed three new members of staff to its Edinburgh office. The firm welcomes Andrea Zdanaviciute as an Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) research specialist, Melanie Miao as an investment analyst and Vickie Little as office manager

Scott Cochrane has been appointed head of property management at Glasgow-based Park Property Management. With 26 years’ experience in the property management sector, Mr Cochrane joins from James Gibb who acquired Life Property Management.

R&D tax credit specialist Amplifi Solutions has scaled up its Edinburgh operation, with a senior hire and a move to new offices in Scotland’s capital. Jan-Michael Kochalski joins Amplifi as regional manager from Leyton UK, while the company has moved to the Kingsford Business Club on Dubli

DLA Piper has announced the appointment of Allan Leal as a partner based in Edinburgh. Mr Leal has joined the firm’s Finance practice from Scottish firm Burness Paull, where he has been a partner since 2018.

Anderson Anderson & Brown (AAB), the tech-enabled business critical services group, has announced the promotion of Katy Thomson to director. Ms Thomson who is based in the business’ Edinburgh office, is a key member of AAB’s corporate tax team, advising both individual and corporate

Wylie & Bisset, the Glasgow-based chartered accountants, has appointed Scott Grant, a seasoned head of sales with demonstrable success driving profitable growth in highly competitive markets, as its first-ever business development director. Experienced at developing new customer networks and mai

RSM UK in Scotland has strengthened its plans for long-term growth almost doubling its annual trainee intake, recruiting a record number of trainees, with the majority joining the firm this summer. The leading audit, tax and consulting firm has recruited 39 new recruits across five Scottish offices,

Wheatley Group has appointed Caroline Gardner and Eric Gibson to its board. Ms Gardner has joined as a non-executive director and chair of the Group Audit committee while Mr Gibson becomes chair of Loretto Housing Association and Lowther.

The Aberdeen office of regional accountancy firm Azets has taken a further 2000 sq ft of space at its Albyn Place offices with capacity for a further 20 staff as the firm responds to rising demand from businesses across the North-East of Scotland. Azets has also strengthened its new corporate tax te

Chartered accountants Wylie & Bisset has appointed Mark Mulholland as a partner to its burgeoning business advisory department. Formerly a partner at Alexander Sloan, Mr Mulholland is a trusted business adviser with over 30 years experience who specialises in working with commercial organisation

Wealth manager James Hambro & Partners has recruited 7IM’s head of financial planning, George Martineau. Mr Martineau, who will become a partner at JH&P, joins his former colleague, Alex Montgomery, in the firm’s new Edinburgh office in Fountainbridge from 1st October.

Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO has welcomed a record number of trainees in 2021, with more than 600 joining across its graduate and apprenticeship programmes since the start of the year – 22 of whom will be based in Scotland. This month, the majority of BDO’s annual cohort of

Aberdeen-based chartered accountancy firm Meston Reid & Co has continued its policy of nurturing professional talent by taking on three new trainees and a placement student. Its trio of trainees – Jonathan Bain, Cara Wilson and Kendall Gibson – have recently graduated from Robert Gor

Accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael has appointed three of its partners to board level as part of its strategy of having a strong succession plan for the senior leadership team of the firm. The new board members are Graham Marjoribanks, head of audit and assurance, L

Carlisle-based H&H Insurance Brokers has welcomed two new apprentices as Victoria Twentyman and Tom McGaffin join the team. Ms Twentyman is the youngest apprentice to have ever been appointed by the firm, at 16 years old. She takes up the role of apprentice admin assistant at the firm's Car