Movers & shakers

Tatiana Guskova has joined law firm Buddle Findlay's Auckland office as a solicitor in the financial services team. Guskova previously worked at Duncan Cotterill's Christchurch office where she practised in company and commercial law.

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Katherine Hall and Anna McHardy have joined Frog Recruitment. Hall will work in the client services division and comes from the tourism industry. McHardy will develop the company's contracting division. Until recently, she worked at Geneva Health, recruiting overseas health professionals.

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Fiona Taag is the marketing services manager at DHL. She joins the firm from New Zealand Trade and Enterprise where she was marketing consultant, creative industries and consumer products. Wilf Robinson has been appointed general manager of interactive entertainment distribution company Gamewizz Interactive. Robinson previously worked as country head of Microsoft HED.

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Flight Centre has appointed Trent Palelei head of the company's risk management division. Palelei comes from the company's head office in Brisbane, where he was in the risk management division for Australia and managed Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania before establishing a national debt recovery team.

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Christine Baumberg has joined Buddle Findlay's Auckland office as a solicitor in the financial services team. Before joining Buddle Findlay, Christine spent more than two years studying and working in Berlin, Germany.

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Velocity Global, information and communication provider, has appointed Ray Burns its chief technical officer. He joined the firm in 1991 from Martin Spencer and Associates, a business planning control systems provider.

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