Rob Firth leaves as architect restructures senior team
Architect HOK has cut a director post resulting in the departure of director of practice building Rob Firth.
The firm has now moved from having six people at director level to only having five.
Firth had been responsible for positioning the firm in the market and bringing in new leads for work.
Andrew Barraclough, director of HOK, said that the duties held by Firth were now dispersed among the other directors.
He added: 鈥淩ob鈥檚 role was no longer considered necessary. With the other directors we didn鈥檛 feel it was necessary to have a single individual devoting his time to practice building.鈥�
鈥淲e have done a reorganisation of the senior leadership team at director level, fundamentally, to be more efficient in organising our projects,鈥� he said.
Barraclough said the decision to cut a director post was not linked to the performance of the firm, which he said had had 鈥渁 great year鈥�.
In its last accounts, for the year to 31 December 2011, HOK International reported a profit of 拢1.1m and a 16% rise in revenue over the previous year.
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