This week’s North East appointments: Featuring AspinallVerdi, Essity Prudhoe Mill and Keepmoat

This week’s round-up of North East appointments includes AspinallVerdi, Essity Prudhoe Mill and Keepmoat. Read on to find out more…

Neil Kohli, AspinallVerdi

Independent nationwide property regeneration consultants AspinallVerdi continue to expand with a key appointment at its office serving clients in the public and private sectors throughout the North East of England.

Neil Kohli joins the growing practice as a consultant at The Core, Bath Lane, Newcastle Helix, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

He arrives from Mysing Capital Group, a regional upmarket residential developer in the North East, where he worked as a development surveyor on luxury home building projects from pre-construction to disposal.

These include a 37-unit luxury scheme in Gosforth, Newcastle, a 70-unit apartment project in Gosforth and 16-unit development in Hexham, Northumberland.

Prior to this, Neil achieved an MSc in Real Estate and BA (Hons) in Economics with Business, both at Northumbria University. He is working towards achieving membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Brett Devenish, director and head of the Newcastle office, commented: “Bringing Neil into our team provides us with a unique area of expertise given his experience working directly for a developer, which will further enhance the specialist advice we can provide to our growing base of North East clients.”

Martin Hallissey, Essity Prudhoe Mill

One of Northumberland’s largest manufacturing employers, tissue maker Essity Prudhoe Mill, has strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of Martin Hallissey as head of projects.

He joins the Swedish-listed company from Greggs, where he was site engineering manager and led a team of 23 engineers maintaining two production factories and delivering a new facility for the bakery business, before making the move from sausage rolls to toilet rolls.

At Prudhoe Mill he will have responsibility for the full project management team and work on a number of major new construction schemes. These include a new waste paper recycling plant, the biggest single investment across any of Essity’s six UK sites in the last decade.

Graduating with a biochemistry degree, he joined Proctor and Gamble as an intern and spent 17 years with the company in London and then Frankfurt, and before joining Greggs was site engineering leader at P&G’s Seaton Delaval site.

Martin said: “I’m super-excited to be joining Prudhoe Mill and taking a lead role in a number of proposed major projects. Essity is the second largest manufacturing employer in Northumberland, and a huge player internationally with toilet tissue brands such as Cushelle and Velvet as well as making Tork paper hand towels for customers such as the NHS.

“Work is currently underway in Prudhoe on creating the UK’s most modern waste paper recycling plant, improving energy efficiency and increasing our ability to make household products from recycled fibre, with sustainability at the heart of a number of other new engineering projects in the pipeline.”

Sarah Armstrong, Keepmoat

Homebuilder Keepmoat, has announced the appointment of Sarah Armstrong as Land & Partnerships Director to strengthen the North East arm of the business.

Sarah brings over 20 years’ experience in the industry and will use her expertise to lead the regional Land & Partnerships team to grow, develop and deliver new housing stock across the North East.

Sarah is also playing a key role in galvanising strategic partnerships with strategic organisations to grow the region’s land pipeline in areas including Teesside, Tyneside and County Durham.

Sarah commented on her appointment: “I’m thrilled to join the team at Keepmoat, particularly when it comes to seeing the social value work that is coordinated and the real difference that is made to local communities.

“I’m looking forward to leading the Land & Partnerships team and building relationships with key land agents, local authorities and affordable housing providers to regenerate brownfield land across the North East.”

Sarah’s previous roles include land director at Taylor Wimpey North Yorkshire & Teesside, land and planning director at Story Homes and senior land manager at Barratt Homes.

This post was originally posted on Bdaily News: https://bdaily.co.uk/articles/2023/08/21/this-weeks-north-east-appointments-featuring-aspinallverdi-essity-prudhoe-mill-and-keepmoat