Movers & Shakers

Cheryl Cleary is consultancy MWH's new group manager for environmental and planning. She was previously with Harrison Grierson and is vice-president of the New Zealand Planning Institute. John Greenwood has become senior project manager, transportation. He was last with City Design, where he was principal consultant, roading and transportation.

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Senior engineering geologist Kevin Hind has transferred home to Auckland from the Perth office of engineering and environmental management company URS, where he has spent a decade.

The company's water and waste group has gained three new engineers: South African Riaan Barnard, a civil engineer, who has been working on water resource-related projects in New Zealand; Tom Joseph, a water resources engineer who has worked in two of URS's United States offices; and senior environmental engineer Helen Shaw, who has project experience in New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

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The URS structural group has two new structural engineers: Jeff Mellor, from the United States, who has worked for companies such as General Electric, Boeing and Hewlett-Packard; and Macedonian immigrant Julijana Gorgievska, who has spent the last six years working on industrial, commercial and residential structural projects in Auckland and Sydney.

Keith Thompson, a new mechanical engineer originally from Northern Ireland, has worked on design engineering projects across a range of industries including energy and telecommunications in England and New Zealand.

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Aaron Wallace is a new associate with chartered accountancy firm Hayes Knight.

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There are three new partners at law firm Bell Gully - David Cooper, Glenn Joblin and Andrew Scott-Howman. The nine new senior associates are Colleen Cavanagh, Bob Hollyman, Simon Ladd, Andrew Monteith, Dean Oppenhuis, Carl Reaich, Jeremy Salmond, Sally Whincop, and Gillian Williams.

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