People in the news 03 September 2010
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KPMG has appointed DR JAMES DIMECH DEBONO as an associate partner in its financial risk management practice, where he will be responsible for setting up a team to focus on supporting investment managers, funds and other financial institutions in the preparation of valuations of their portfolios.
DeBono joins KPMG from Duff & Phelps, where he was managing director leading the international financial engineering practice, having spent the previous eleven years with Ernst & Young in London and New York.
JOACHIM SCHINDLER, head of audit for KPMG Europe since 2007, has been named global head of audit for KPMG International. He succeeds HENRY KEIZER, who has become deputy chairman and chief operating officer of KPMG in the US. Schindler, who joined the firm in Germany in 1989, will also continue as head of audit for KPMG Europe and be a member of KPMG's global executive team.
JASON SHARP joins telecoms provider Daisy Group as group finance director. He was previously finance director for British Nuclear Fuels, and has worked in the aerospace, utilities and transport sectors since qualifying with Ernst & Young in 1996.
Target Chartered Accountants has appointed WILL LODDER as associate director of audit and assurance. Lodder joins from Moore Stephens, where he was director in the audit, assurance and advisory department, and has more than 14 years experience working with entrepreneurial businesses in the UK, Europe and Asia.
Target has also promoted ANDREW WILSON from senior manager to associate director of tax planning. Wilson is head of the firm’s corporate and business tax team in the Midlands, having joined Target in 2008 after four years with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Seymour Taylor has appointed SIMON TURNER as its new managing director. Turner joined the High Wycombe firm in 1998 and become one of its five current directors in 2006. He specialises in providing services to overseas-owned UK subsidiary companies.
Turner succeeds BILL JOHNSTON who continues as a client director of Seymour Taylor and who will be developing the firm’s client portfolio in the charity and education sectors.
Seeability, formerly the Royal School for the Blind, has appointed GARETH MOSTYN as a trustee. Mostyn is head of corporate finance at Anglo American and will become treasurer in October. He is a chartered accountant with 15 years' experience in senior finance roles at major public companies.