Appointments: New partner for Sheffield law firm
Mr Crossland has extensive experience in handling high-value personal injury work largely for insurance companies dealing with road accident claims.
Evans Easyspace has appointed Chris Tate as its new financial director.
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Hide AdHe will be responsible for the company's financial management and the development of company systems, based at the company's head offices in Millshaw, Leeds. He was previously financial director for Alphanumeric in Sheffield.
Printing firm SCR Envelopes has bolstered its team with the appointment of sales manager Richard Pennie and sales manager Debbie Axup.
They both join the Leeds-based firm from Great Northern Envelopes (GNE) in Leeds.
Patient Opinion has appointed Richard Atkinson, creator of the charity donation website Justgiving, to its board of directors to support its expansion.
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Hide AdThe Sheffield-based social enterprise gives patients, relatives and carers a space to share their views, concerns and gratitude online, and aims to direct both positive and negative stories to NHS trusts to drive improvements.
Mr Atkinson is currently head of technology practice at health consultancy, Finnamore.
Leeds and Bradford solicitors Schofield Sweeney has appointed Howard Roberts to lead its new corporate recovery and insolvency department.
Mr Roberts has over 15 years' commercial law experience in the UK and the Cayman Islands.
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Hide AdOnline accounting software firm Liquid Accounts has appointed Chris Eccles as commercial director.
He previously built up and sold his own software business in 2006. Since then he has held a number of transitional and board level roles which included selling a specialist software company to accounting giant Sage.
Law firm Cobbetts has appointed Jeremy Bennett as a partner to its banking and restructuring team in Leeds
Mr Bennett joins the firm from JBL Law in Leeds. Director Antony Wilson, senior legal executive Russell Stevens, and newly-qualified lawyer Danielle Bennett join him in the move to Cobbetts.
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Hide AdLaw firm Kirbys is continuing to expand with the promotion of one of its solicitors to partner.
Karen Thompson, who joined the Harrogate-based firm in 2003 becomes a partner in the estate planning department.
Barrie Hyde has joined Bridford Financial Solutions in Ilkley as national accounts director.
He previously developed and implemented a UK finance sales strategy at Ferrari Financial Services.
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Hide AdYorkshire Cancer Research has appointed a new chairman to help boost its annual income by at least 5m over the next decade.
Professor Anthony Robards, director and former chairman of York Science Park, has taken over the role from retiring chairman Dr Brenda Jackson.
Margaret Coleman has been appointed chairman of The Media Centre's board of directors.
She is former principal of Huddersfield's New College, who now runs her own consultancy business
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Hide AdThe Media Centre in Huddersfield is the home of 130 creative businesses, employing around 300 people across four buildings.
The Association for Perioperative Practice has appointed Tracy Coates as its president.
The Harrogate-based charity represents around 40 per cent of all UK theatre nurses.
Ms Coates, who joined AfPP's board of trustees in October 2005, has worked at the National Patient Safety Agency as patient safety lead anesthesia since July 2008.