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Hereward Philips of North London has made three internal appointments.

Nick Antoniou (above, centre) has been made a partner. He is a leading member of the Hereward’s Business Support Group and specialises in working with professional partnerships, owner-managed businesses, manufacturing companies and the healthcare sector.

Alan Ford (above, left) has been promoted to director of private client services. He has responsibility for managing and developing services spanning several of the firm’s existing departments, including tax, compliance and financial planning for personal clients, trusts and executors in the new area of self-assessment.

Peter Bright (above, right) moves up to become director of VAT services. He remains in charge of Hereward’s VAT consultancy department and also heads up the firm’s VAT Refund Service, which assists overseas companies to recover VAT expenses incurred in the Economic Union.

A year after becoming the youngest – and only female – partner in the Birmingham office of Baker Tilly, accountant Jane Bleach (right) as been appointed as the firm’s national staff partner. Bleach. 34, will be responsible for future national recruitment, induction and training policy, as well as coordinating activity within the firm’s human resources department.

Tim Pope has joined the insolvency team of national law firm Hammond Suddards. Formerly a senior partner in the insolvency department of Dibb Lupton Broomhead, Pope will be based in Hammond’s City of London office.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu International has announced the appointment of Otto Jelinek as chairman of its practice in the Czech Republic. The former Canadian government minister will focus his efforts on providing services to clients, increasing the firm’s local and international client base and expanding the range of services offered by Deloitte & Touche in the Czech Republic.

The Coventry, the UK’s 12th largest building society, has appointed Andrew Payton (right) as its finance manager. Payton’s main role will be to ensure all the necessary statutory and regulatory information is prepared along with providing financial support to the rest of the business. Payton’s hobbies include running, cycling and loud guitar music!

Christopher Martin has been appointed Bhs finance director. Martin, 36, joined Stonehouse early in 1995 and took over as Mothercare finance director in June of the same year. Alison King, 30, joined Mothercare in 1995 as financial controller and has taken over the finance director role following Martin’s departure.

Fred Marks, (right) North West senior regional partner of accountancy firm KPMG since 1991, has retired after a 35-year career with the firm. For the past five years Marks has led a team of 48 partners and around 750 staff providing audit and business advisory services to many of the region’s blue chip public and private sector organisations from KPMG’s offices in Manchester, Liverpool, Preston and Stoke-on-Trent.

Frank Lewitt is the new group finance director at Manchester-based international consulting engineers Allott & Lomas. He will take responsibility for the company’s information technology and strategic development.

Douglas McMillan (left) and Bernard McLoughlin, formerly with KPMG in Preston, have set up a new accountancy firm McMillan & Co in the North West. The firm offers a complete range of audit, accounting and tax services, and specialises in corporate finance assignments, company secretarial, management information systems, payroll services and personal financial planning.

Pinsent Curtis corporate partner Alan Greenough (below) has been voted the popular winner of the Dealmaker of the Year Awards 1996 in the Midlands. Greenough won the Top Corporate Lawyer category and, by attracting more votes from his peers in the venture capital world than anyone in any other category, he took the overall Dealmaker of the Year title.