On The Move: A round-up of the latest appointments in Scottish business

Cathcart Associates has announced three senior promotions as the business continues to see rapid expansion in the tech and energy recruitment industries across the globe.

Sigrid Carstairs, Sabrina Hickl and Rhona Kennedy of Cathcart Associates. Picture: Philip Stanley Dickson

Rhona Kennedy has been promoted from senior recruitment consultant to principal consultant. She specialises in sourcing software developers to support Scotland’s thriving tech sector, and will be responsible for leading the Scottish division of the specialist IT recruitment firm’s operations to help address Scotland’s tech sector skills shortage.

In her new role as principal consultant and lead for Germany, Austria & Switzerland with the organisation’s renewable energy division, Cathcart Energy, Sabrina Hickl drives recruitment for C-Level positions in this sector. Having already seen great success as the first European consultant within the energy division, Sabrina will continue to grow her existing team to extend Cathcart’s reach in the lucrative German, Austrian and Swiss renewable energy markets.

Sigrid Carstairs has also been appointed as senior recruitment consultant for Scandinavia with Cathcart Energy. Integral in the early development of the company’s presence in Northern Europe, Sigrid will further the Scandinavian expansion of Cathcart’s renewable energy business, offering a full contract and permanent recruitment service across the region.

A University of Strathclyde-led consortium which accelerates progress in pharmaceutical development and manufacturing has appointed a new industry director.

Massimo Bresciani has taken up the post with CMAC (Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation), which accelerates the adoption of advanced manufacturing solutions for the design, development and production of high-value pharmaceutical products.

He will provide leadership to CMAC’s industry engagement, knowledge exchange and research translation activities for industry and academic partners across major programmes, including the flagship EPSRC Future Manufacturing Research Hub.

Full service law firm Thorntons has appointed Catriona Miller as a partner in its Edinburgh private client team based at Citypoint, Haymarket.

Within her role at Thorntons, Catriona will take a leading role in advising Edinburgh private clients and pursue developing the firm’s offering and growing the department. Catriona grew up in East Lothian before gaining both her degree and diploma in legal practice at Aberdeen University.