Rob Bostock, head of eCommerce at footwear
retailer Dune, has left the business. Kate
Smyth, formerly eCommerce director at LK Bennett, takes
over on an interim consultancy basis.
Shop Direct Group, the parent company of Very, Littlewoods and
Isme, has named Alex Baldock as its new chief
executive. Baldock joins in September succeeding Mark
Newton-Jones, who announced his decision to move on in
January after almost nine years at Shop Direct’s helm. Currently
managing director at asset finance company Lombard, Baldock has
previously held senior roles in corporate and commercial banking
at Barclays and worked as a management consultant at Bain &
Company, Ernst & Young and Dentsu.
Harriet Green, chief executive at Premier
Farnell since 2006, is joining travel company Thomas Cook as
chief executive at the end of the month, succeeding Sam
Weihagen. Laurence Bain, who joined the
business in 2002 as chief operating officer, took over from Green
as chief executive of Premier Farnell, effective 12th June.
Online marketplace eBay promoted Amanda Metcalfe
from director of fashion retail to UK and Republic of Ireland
marketing director. Prior to working at eBay, Metcalfe worked as
marketing director for luxury online fashion retailer
My-wardrobe.com and Cocosa.com and led online marketing for
Sainsbury’s.
Miriam Lahage has joined apparel retailer Peek &
Cloppenburg as managing director of new business. Lahage was most
recently eBay’s global head of fashion and has previously held
roles at TK Maxx parent TJX Companies and at Net-a-Porter. She
founded online shop Koodos in 2007, which was sold two years
later.
After 10 years at Aurora Fashions, the owner of fashion brands
Coast, Oasis and Warehouse, chairman Stewart
Binnie has stepped down from the board. Chief executive
Derek Lovelock assumes the additional role of
chairman, while the remaining Aurora board continues
unchanged.
Supplier people
Ecommerce agency Metakinetic appointed Kay
Harding, formerly PPC manager at search marketing agency
Guava, as search marketing specialist. She has been tasked with
driving the growth of the agency’s specialist eCommerce search
marketing team.
Brighton-based digital marketing company Pure 360 has continued
its expansion with 18 new appointments. Becky
Kidd was brought in to help with recruitment, alongside
a senior account manager and three PHP developers to focus on
building new software features.
Maginus, a provider of multichannel retail and distribution
solutions, has further strengthened its JunctionMCR team with the
appointment of Richard Swift as its new head of
consulting. He joins from Microsoft Dynamics AX partner, Junction
Solutions UK.
Data8, the data enrichment specialist, has made David
Johnson, a former employee at Deutsche Bank, its new
client services manager to help assist the firm’s expansion plans
for its online and real-time data cleansing services.
Christian Peck, former vice president of
business operations, technology and products at AOL Europe, has
been named UK managing director at marketing services and
technology firm Acxiom. He will report to US-based Acxiom chief
revenue officer Nada Stirratt.
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