Grantham, United Kingdom - March 24, 2014, Grantham, United Kingdom - Belvoir Lettings, a franchise company, announced that its CEO Dorian Gonsalves will be stepping down from his role for personal reasons, but will stay as director of commercial and franchising.
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Mr. Gonsalves has been with Belvoir since 2005 and has over a decade's experience in the property industry. He joined Countrywide as an estate agent in 1998 and rose rapidly to become an Executive Branch Manager. He joined Belvoir as a Business Development Manager and rose quickly through the ranks to Head of Sales, Director of Operations and subsequently to Chief Executive Officer in July 2010.
Carl Chadwick, the Finance Director of Belvoir, will take on the role of Chief Executive.
Mr. Chadwick has been a Chartered Accountant for 30 years, having trained with KPMG and PWC. Following his training, he became a Corporate Finance specialist and worked for 20 years with PKF, Grant Thornton and latterly Sunaxis and worked with Belvoir during that period. he also has retail experience at Boots having been part of the team which built Boots Opticians. He joined Belvoir as Finance Director in 2011.
The company also announced that Karen Bach, Non-Executive Director, is resigning from the board.
Ms. Bach joined Belvoir as Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Remuneration and Audit Committees on Admission on February 21, 2012. Her career includes public, private and multi-national corporate businesses including IXEurope Plc, Advanced Computer Software Plc. and Kewill Plc. as CFO.
Previously, Ms. Bach worked in various international roles with General Motors, EDS and MCI WorldCom having qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst and Young. More recently, she was Commercial Director of a multi-site, private equity backed children's nursery business.
Ms. Bach has also been Non-Executive Director of a pre-revenue start-up, a Princes Trust mentor and an independent consultant. She is a Trustee of the eLearning-Foundation.
The company also announced that Andrew Borkowski will join the Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director and he will chair the audit committee. ■