Appointments

Edinburgh-based private bank Hampden & Co has reported a strong first half with year-on-year double-digit increases in income, deposits and lending. In the six months to 30 June 2021, income was up by £1.2 million or 24 per cent against the first half of the previous year to £6 milli

Law firm Murray Beith Murray has announced internal promotions and a recruitment appointment within the firm’s tax group.  Laura Brown, who has been with Murray Beith Murray since 2016, has been promoted to director of tax. Ms Brown, an accountant by profession, is a tax specialist and ha

Cushman & Wakefield has announced the promotion of Priya Kharbanda, Ewan Stewart and Adam Watt to senior surveyors in the Scottish operation. They are among 44 promotions across a range of markets, skill lines and functions across the UK.

KPMG has appointed James Kergon as Scotland senior partner to lead the business advisory firm nationally. Mr Kergon is responsible for a team of more than 1,300 people across KPMG’s offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, with a remit to drive the firm’s growth in Scotland.

Chartered accountancy firm French Duncan has appointed Elizabeth Leonard as its new director in its corporate tax team. It is hoped that Ms Leonard's appointment will help extend its client base in a post-pandemic economy, and beyond.

Orkney-based Scholes Chartered Accountants has appointed Ryan Allan as a director. Mr Allan, who began his accountancy career with Scholes CA in 2011, has been an associate director with the firm for the past two years. He now joins directors Karen Scholes and Ivan Houston at the helm of the company

Anderson Strathern has made a duo of senior appointments, with the Scottish legal firm making a partner promotion and a hire to its highly-rated residential property team. Jemma Richardson, deputy head of the firm’s residential property department, is appointed a partner, while Edwina de Klee

Glasgow-based Xcel Financial Services Limited (XFS Limited), a provider of sales ledger management, credit control and debt recovery, has appointed Margo Kidd as a director. Ms Kidd joined XFS Limited in 2020 as chief operations officer and has 32 years of experience in the collections industry

Global financial services consulting firm Sionic has appointed Scott Lee as a partner in the firm’s  Wealth Management & Private Banking Practice Mr Lee joins Sionic from his former role as investment management director in the Wealth & Asset Management Practice at KPMG. Based in

Professional services firm Begbies Traynor has appointed personal insolvency specialist David Tannock as a manager based at its Glasgow office. With more than 18 years’ experience in the insolvency sector, Mr Tannock joins from an accountancy and business advisory services firm in Glasgow wher

Wealth manager Cazenove Capital has announced the appointment of James Burley as a portfolio director in Edinburgh as part of a new regional strategy. Mr Burley joins the business, part of the Schroders Group, with over 14 years’ experience of providing strategic planning and investment manage

Edinburgh-based Cumulus Oncology has appointed Nicola Broughton as a non-executive director as Europe’s first oncology drug discovery accelerator continues in scale-up mode and targets its next investment round. Ms Broughton, a former investment director at Mercia Asset Management, is the mana

Steve Dunlop, the former chief executive of Scottish Enterprise has joined Crosswind Developments as a non-executive director. Crosswind Developments is the firm behind plans to build 2,500 homes and create more than one million square feet of commercial space on an area around a decommissioned runw

Thorntons Investments has appointed Andrew McLean as a discretionary portfolio manager. The firm said that his appointment strengthens its client proposition during a time of growth for the business.

EY has strengthened its Scotland team by announcing 16 senior appointments, including four new equity partners, across all service lines. Blake Adlem (Financial Services Assurance, based in Edinburgh), Blair Hopkins (People Advisory Services, based in Glasgow) and Scott Kenyon (Consulting, based in