On the Move: Olympic regen role for MP

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  • Former housing minister Nick Raynsford has been appointed chair of Triathlon Homes - a joint venture company established by East Thames Group, First Base and Southern Housing Group to own and manage affordable homes at the Olympic Games’ Athletes Village development. Currently MP for Greenwich and Woolwich, Mr Raynsford will work with Triathlon’s management team to guide the company in contributing to the wider regeneration of the area.
  • Charity Bank has made a series of appointments to its first Welsh Advisory Board. The board members are: David Melding, Conservative Party Assembly Member for south Wales central and shadow economic development minister; banker, economist and public policy specialist Gerry Holtham; Simon Gibson, chief executive officer of venture capital specialist Wesley Clover, Sir Roger Jones, Swansea University chair of governors of and member of S4C Authority; Adele Blakebrough, member of the Welsh Assembly Government’s Social Enterprise Ministerial Advisory Group and Tom Davies, commissioner with the Independent Police Complaints Commission with responsibility for Wales.
  • Grant Thornton has made two new appointments to its government and infrastructure advisory (GIA) team. Neil Rutledge, previously an infrastructure director, has been promoted to partner and Michael Posener, a former vice president in the infrastructure team at investment banking and financial services firm, Macquarie, joins the GIA team as associate director.
  • The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has announced James Purnell is to become its new chair. The former MP and cabinet minister is taking over from John Makinson, chair and chief executive of Penguin, who has been chair of IPPR since 2007. Mr Purnell will assume the role at the beginning of September.
  • Comedian, actor and presenter Griff Rhys Jones has become the first president of new national charity Civic Voice. The campaigner and author has also launched plans for a national Civic Day on 25 June 2011, when civic societies across England will invite people to celebrate their local area and discover more about where they live.
  • Brighton and Hove Council has unveiled a new team of strategic directors as part of a restructure to improve service delivery for residents. The appointments to the newly created roles include London Development Agency’s director of design, strategy and planning Geoff Raw, who will become strategic director of place, and Charlie Stewart, currently the director of West Sussex Council's fundamental services review, who will be strategic director of resources. They are joined by David Murray – acting customer services executive director at Newham Council – as strategic director of communities and Terry Parkin, deputy director of children’s services at Southwark Council – who will take up the mantle of strategic director of people.