Week ending 17 August 2012

Reed Elsevier has named Duncan Palmer as next CFO. Most recently CFO at Fortune 500 company Owens Corning, Palmer has held senior finance roles at Royal Dutch Shell in the UK, Netherlands and US.

Dr Noel Tagoe will join CIMA's senior management team as executive director-education. Tagoe has been promoted to the role from head of research and development. A chartered accountant from Ghana, he previously led KPMG's financial advisory consulting practice in West Africa for three years.

Marcus Blase has been confirmed as senior consultant in the private client team at Cartlidge Morland. For the past 22 years Blase has been at HSBC and Origen Financial Services.

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