Briefs: New CEO for EEDA; Sagentia to complete switch to AIM
Deborah Cadman is the new chief executive of the East of England Development Agency.
EEDA said her main priorities are working with partners to harness the region's potential, and ensuring that EEDA is best-placed to help businesses large and small to be better equipped to compete in global markets, and to be more resource efficient.
Ms Cadman joins EEDA from St Edmundsbury Borough Council in Suffolk, where she was chief executive. Previously she held senior regeneration roles in local government and worked for the Audit Commission. She takes over from David Marlow, who leaves EEDA after five years to pursue a career in public policy and economic development consultancy.
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Ware Anthony Rust has been named in the top 25 public sector PR consultancies in the UK. The Cambridge-based agency is ranked 23rd in PR Week's first public sector consultancies league table - one of only nine companies featured outside London.
Fees from WAR's public sector work in 2007 totalled nearly £200,000 and made up 10% of the agency's total PR income.
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Data quality specialists Datanomic Ltd announced the availability of dn:Director 7.0, a flexible data quality application. It provides a unified, data agnostic, data quality application that delivers the full range of data quality functionality in a single integrated platform.
New features include the capability to construct, test and publish new data quality processors, enabling Datanomic and its customer and partner community to develop easily packaged and reusable solutions to specific data quality problems occurring in any type of data.
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Tech consulting, development and venturing firm Sagentia Group plc (SAG.L) expects to complete its switch from being listed in Switerland to being listed on London's AIM by Friday.
It said that at close of business on Friday, it had received acceptances of its offer to alling about 97.6% of Swiss listed shares.
In March this year Sagentia said it would enable existing shareholders to transfer their share ownership from a company incorporated in Switzerland to one incorporated in the UK, by cancelling its Swiss listing and having shares in the new holding company admitted to trading on AIM. In June, the Board announced the terms of the offer made by Sagentia Group plc for the shares in Sagentia Group AG.
Application has been made for the admission to trading on AIM of 848,259 new Sagentia shares and dealings are excepted to start in the new shares on Firday (25 July).
