TECHNOLOGY company Zytronic has promoted MARK CAMBRIDGE to chief executive. He succeeds John Kennair, who will continue on the board as chairman.

Feb 6 2008 by Iain Laing, The Journal

Cambridge, 44, has been managing director of the Blaydon group’s operating subsidiary, Zytronic Displays Limited since February 2006, and he was appointed to the board in June as an executive director. He joined the Group in 1991, subsequently holding positions in technical, quality, sales and marketing. He was very closely involved with the initial commercialisation of the underlying patented technology and the market introduction of the first Zytouch sensors.

Public relations agency Golley Slater Newcastle has promoted account executive LUCY HENSHER to the role of junior account manager. Hensher, 23, first joined Golley Slater in 2005 after graduating from Northumbria University. Since then she has worked with a range of consumer, property and corporate clients.

ALISON AULD, 32, has joined Newcastle financial advice company Active Financial Services as an independent financial adviser.

She is the first of several IFAs the Guisborough-based company plans to recruit in early 2008 as it pursues further growth. Auld, from the Westerhope area of Newcastle, is resuming her career after leaving her previous job as manager of the Newcastle branch of the Leeds Building Society, in Northumberland Street, to devote more time to her young family.

Architects the Jesmond Group has appointed SANA S DAWOOD AL-NAIMI as an architect. Educated in Baghdad, she has more than 10 years’ experience of design and construction in the Middle East in addition to spending five years as a successful architect in Newcastle, specialising in the design and construction of housing (extra care provisions), master planning and regeneration. Sana’s family has always held close links with the UK. Her father brought the family to England for three years while studying or his PhD in English Literature in the early seventies, allowing Sana to become bilingual under the age of five. She moved to the UK with her husband in 2002.

Enterprise development company NStar has recruited JANETTE MILLIGAN as a marketing assistant. Janette Milligan, 21, joins the NStar Finance & business team and will work closely with SMEs and entrepreneurs across the North-East to promote the programme’s services. Janette, from Newcastle, is a business studies student at Northumbria University, and joins NStar as part of a sandwich year from her course.

The TTE Technical Training Group, the employer-led training organisation for the Oil and Gas, Process, Engineering and Manufacturing sectors, has appointed KEVIN RAFFERTY as its new business unit coordinator for customer relations and welfare support services.

Kevin, 27, will manage TTE’s welfare service, which provides support and guidance to hundreds of national and international technicians who take part in residential training programmes at the Group’s training centres in the Tees Valley.

Working closely with both UK and international clients, Kevin’s team of professionals organise comprehensive welfare packages, which include, for foreign technicians, a visa application-support scheme and an airport meet-and-greet service.