Atkins poaches new FD from Skanska
Skanska’s Jo Jarman has joined Atkins as its finance director for the UK and Europe.
Jarman has been at Skanska since 2013 and was most recently a senior finance business parter at Skanska UK Infrastructure. She will replace Mark Anderson, who is leaving Atkins on 21 May to take a career break.
Atkins UK and Europe chief executive Richard Robinson said: “Jo’s exceptional leadership qualities and her broader commercial experience of joint venture and alliance delivery models will be a great asset to our business.”
Jarman had moved to Skanska from Atkins in 2013, when she was finance director for highways at the British engineering group. She has also worked in finance at Amey.
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South Yorkshire police and crime commissioner Alan Billings has hit out at Highways England over what he describes as an “insensitive” and “provocative” smart motorway safety advert, launched this week.
Set to the tune of the Pet Shop Boys’ version of the song Go West , the new advert delivers the message that drivers should go left to pull into an emergency refuge area, hard shoulder or service area if they encounter problems with their vehicle (
see video below).
“I regard this [campaign] as at best insensitive and at worst quite provocative in the present circumstances, he said. The all-party select committee is currently considering the matter of motorway safety.
Ranjeev Kumar
Law firm TLT has bolstered its real estate and financial services offering with a partner hire to its real estate faction.
Ranjeev Kumar joins from Watson Farley Williams, where he led the firm’s real estate finance in the capital.
“Ranjeev’s mix of real estate and financial services experience is clearly a great strategic fit for TLT and will enhance the firm’s offering across both these key sectors. His knowledge and experience will be a great asset to the team,” partner and head of financial services sector at TLT, Andrew Lyon, said.
With experience in domestic and cross-border real estate transactions, Kumar will largely have the same focus at TLT, working alongside developers, investors, banks and other financial institutions.
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