The Meetings, Events and Communications division of Grass Roots has announced a number of new appointments and promotions in its Venue Procurement, Event Production and Delegate Management Services teams.

The Venue Procurement team has hired Jo Goodman who came from Banks Sadler and university graduate, Olivia Hughes, as Consultants, while Hannah Richardson and Philippa Murray have both been promoted to Account Managers within the team.

The Event Production team has appointed Richard Pollock as Assistant Technical Production Manager, Helen Bothamley as Project Manager/Production Assistant, and Juliette Langstone as Jaguar Finance Administration. Richard joins Grass Roots from, Stage Right Productions, Helen from the charity In Control in the health and social care arena where she was coordinated their events and communications and Juliette from chartered surveyors, Wilkins. Elsewhere in the team Camilla Barker has been promoted to Project Manager/Production Assistant, Charlie Perry to Project Executive/Production Assistant and Russell Blandford to Senior Production Manager.

The Delegate Management Services team has promoted Sue Shearman to Group Operations Manager and bolstered its Technology Department with the addition of Kamran Ellahi as Developer. Kamran previously worked at Cyber Duck.

Other promotions within the company include Claire Robinson to Digital Project Manager in the Creative team and Denise Tew to Business Support Manager in the Event Management team.

Nick Bender, Head of Global Events Grass Roots, comments: "It is great to be able to strengthen our team by making these key appointments and also by offering personal development opportunities to existing staff. Each brings their own unique skills and individual talents, which will benefit Grass Roots and strengthen our client offering."