Adam Greenwood has been appointed as technical dir - ector at Fairline Boats.

Regarded as one of the foremost and influential designers within the marine industry, Greenwood's appointment to the board follows 18 years of experience in design and engineering since joining the company in 1986 as an industrial design and transport graduate.

Marathon Leisure has expanded its sales operation by appointing two new key members of sales staff.

Malcolm Galloway has been appointed sales office manager. He joins Marathon after five years with Baseline Marine Products. Combined with a previous role at Solent Leisure supplies he brings over 20 years of extensive marine knowledge to the Marathon sales office team, and will manage a sales office team of four.

for the South East of England.

Coming from a field sales position outside of the marine industry and with a keen interest in sailing, Sjollema will build on the work done by her predecessor Alex Alley who leaves Marathon to pursue ambitions of global yacht racing.

Two new service managers have joined British Waterways' Central Shires and South East.

Jon Oakes, right, the new service manager for Central Shires Waterways, sharpened his customer service skills at Bass. He was involved firstly in pub management, with responsibility for a 25-pub district, and then in marketing, developing concepts and brands for pubs and evaluating investment proposals.

Murray Geddes, left, brings his service experience within both the private and public sectors to South East Waterways. Most recently as head of museum services for Birmingham City Council, he Anne Vaudray has joined Lewmar in the aftermarket sales department to take charge of marine equipment sales in southern Europe.

Vaudray, whose native language is French, was previously with Sea Sure, and is the current RS 200 National Champion, so she brings a strong combination of sailing talent and marine industry experience to the company.

Russell Dew has joined the boat sales team at Walton Marine's Upton upon Severn base. Dew has 20 years sales experience and a lifelong love of boats and boating.

He takes over from Paul Barlow who is moving to Walton Marine's Brighton Marina sales office to head up brokerage operations.

was responsible for visitor services and the catering and retail operations.

Previously he was head of operations for Madame Tussaud's in London before becoming the commercial manager, responsible for an after-ticket spend turnover of £4million.

Oakes and Geddes will be responsible for customer operations, marketing, communications and PR, leisure development, and economic and social development for each of their waterway units.

This includes moorings management, patrol and enforcement, and delivering customer service to the wide range of visitors to the waterways.