Movers & Shakers

Deborah Swift has joined Toshiba's information systems division as national retail channel manager, based in Auckland. She previously worked for Tech Pacific as product manager for HP consumer supplies.

English New Zealand, the country's national federation of English-language schools, has appointed Angela Oliver as chairwoman and Christine Schmidli as secretary.

Law firm Bell Gully has appointed Stephen Macliver as its chief executive. He will join the firm in August and replace Maggie Callicrate, who is returning to the United States.

Law firm Phillips Fox has promoted four lawyers. In Auckland Gillian Weir and Rick Hargreaves become senior associates in the commercial dispute resolution team and Williamena Sim becomes a senior associate in the property, infrastructure and development team. Sarah Miller becomes a senior associate in the corporate and financial services team in Wellington.

Nestle Purina Petcare has appointed Lal Meyer as country manager. He was formerly the company's director of customer relationship marketing in South Africa.

First Assistance, which deals in travel/medical, roadside, property, business and claims assistance, has appointed Dr Anton van den Bergh as head of operations. Before his appointment, Dr van den Bergh was a branch medical adviser for the ACC.