Capital G

Andrew Vaucrosson, vice president of marketing at Capital G, is moving on.

Mr. Vaucrosson said yesterday that he will be moving to another company in January but added he was not yet in a position to say where he will be moving.

Mr. Vaucrosson has been with Capital G (then Gibbons Deposit Company) since 1998. Previous to that, he worked at the Bank of Bermuda.

He is also known for his active participation in a number of the island's non-profit organisations including the Bermuda International Film Festival, a brief tenure as president of Keep Bermuda Beautiful and the Bermuda Biodiversity Project.

Bermuda Employers Council committee elected

The Bermuda Employers Council (BEC) elected the following officers and executive committee members for 2002 at its recent annual general meeting.

The appointments were made by the BEC Board of Governors.

Edward Saints was elected as president, Graham Redford as first vice-president, Jonathan Brewin as second vice-president, and Scott Carswell as secretary/treasurer.

The Executive Committee members are: Patricia Bean, Keith Jensen, Bruce Lines, Carolyn Myers, Lawrence Trimingham and Paget Wharton.

XL Capital

XL Capital has announced the appointment of Richard S. Banus as Executive Vice President and Chief Underwriting Officer for XL's Insurance Operations.

Mr. Banus previously served as a managing director of One Beacon, and prior to One Beacon acquiring CGU -North America, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Insurance Operating Officer at CGU. From 1974 to 1995, Mr. Banus served in underwriting and business development capacities at St. Paul Fire and Marine.

Nicholas Brown, President and Chief Executive Officer of XL's Insurance Operations said: "We are fortunate to have someone of Richard's calibre join our management team and look forward to brining his energy and expertise to our global speciality insurance business."

Total Office Management

President and CEO of Total Office Management Ltd. (TOM) Viv Redford has announced that Malcolm Dixon, executive director of the Bermuda Employers Council (BEC) will join TOM as executive vice president -corporate and HR services, effective January 1.

Mr. Redford said: "It is with a great deal of pride that we announce that Malcolm is joining our team in January 2002. TOM has provided human resources services since we incorporated and we count ourselves extremely fortunate to have an executive manager the calibre of Malcolm join us so that we can enhance the range of services we provide. He is well known in the business community and has a wealth of experience in management and employee relations, human resources administration, and labour relations which will provide added value for all of TOM's clients."

Mr. Dixon said he was looking froward to working with TOM as he sees a continued need in the market for the specialised services that both he and TOM are able to provide. He said: "Through the BEC I have had first hand experience in working with TOM and knew that I could very easily fit in with their organisation to continue to serve the Bermuda business community.

I have spent the many years working with human resource development and have seen many changes both locally and internationally. Within our changing world, there will only be more challenges ahead and I look forward to working with my new business colleagues in providing a service that will help Bermuda businesses meet these challenges as they present themselves."

During his professional career, Mr. Dixon has been an industrial systems consultant and has held senior management positions with Oxford Laundry, St. Groge's Hotel and Pearman Watlington and Co. with responsibilities at each business for general management, human resources management, labour relation and training and development. Upon leaving PW's he was appointed executive director of the BEC where he remained until his pending retirement.

He is an associate of the Institute of British Management and has served on many boards, including the Labour Advisory Council, the National Training Board, the Health and Safety Council, The Employees Assistance Programme of Bermuda and Investors in People. He is also past president of the Bermuda Human Resource Association.

New Beauty Therapist

Former Bersalon student Rio Gilbert returned to Bermuda a few months ago after studying beauty therapy in the UK at Harrogate College, Hornbeam Park, North Yorkshire. During her time in the UK Ms Gilbert studied all aspects of beauty therapy including mechanical and electrical body treatments, aromatherapy, face and skin conditioning electrical treatments, massage therapy, diatherapy and blend methods of depilatory work.

On returning to Bermuda, Ms Gilbert, 25, spent several weeks with Bersalon undergoing in-house education and spa orientation. She also studied for her Guinot of Paris qualification in hydradermie facial treatments and product knowledge. She also qualified as a Jessica Upscale Nail Systems operator.

Ms Gilbert is now a fully qualified graduate beauty therapist to Bersalon Systems and Standards and is a member of the beauty therapy staff at the Spa at Sonesta Beach Resort.

Bersalon company president Michael Ternet says that Ms Gilbert has shown herself to be a dedicated beauty therapist who applied herself well to her studies whilst overseas and who also kept him up to date with regular letters of her progress at college.

As a fully qualified UK trained beauty therapist, Ms Gilbert's career objectives will go full steam ahead next year, when after completing a further year with Bersalon, she plans to seek further adventures overseas, working on board cruise ships so that she can experience working under pressure in a very close team while travelling the world.