People on the move: Learning Factory adds new faces

OLIVIA Allsop and James Caldwell have joined the management team of The Learning Factory. Olivia Allsop, who was with Telecom and Telnet, heads the telemarketing division while James Caldwell is creative director, responsible for educational software game design and content. He was teaching at Manuka Primary School.

ROBIN Dare has become acting chief executive of the Customs Service and Comptroller of Customs. He has been with the department for 27 years, most recently as national manager, goods management, based in Auckland.

JOURNALIST Jan Power is joining public relations consultancy Cause & Effect as a senior consultant.

THE Department of Conservation has retained communications consultant and motoring writer, Peter Gill, to liaise with foreign journalists during Apec and the America's Cup to create an awareness of the Hauraki Gulf and New Zealand.

SOLUTION 6, which supplies business systems to the accounting profession, has promoted sales manager David Worth to general manager. He has a seven-year background in IT, and a 10-year history in banking and chartered accounting here and in Britain.

MAERSK New Zealand Ltd has promoted Craig Sain to general manager, sales and marketing. Mr Sain has been with the company since it began its New Zealand operations in 1997. Lars Nielsen is joining the company from its head office in Copenhagen where he was involved on the European side of Maersk New Zealand's services. He has previously worked on secondment to Maersk Sri Lanka.