Jill Insley, head of GNM's Consumer team, has been named Santander's Personal Financial Journalist of the Year.
It is still a negative situation for everybody," said Duncan Brewer, partner at Oliver Wyman and head of its retail and consumer team.
"I think it will introduce some challenges for them just based on our experience of having built operating systems for 25 years or so," said James DeBragga, the general manager of Microsoft's Windows consumer team.
Rupert Jones of our consumer team explains: The Treasury's autumn statement documents reveal that ministers will implement a national council tax discount of 50% for "property annexes" from April 2014.
Cheryl Potter, head of Permira's consumer team, said: "The plan was to take a business that was non-core for Unilever and create a pan-European frozen food platform".
"The Permira funds have extensive expertise in backing global brands, as demonstrated with Hugo Boss and Valentino, and we are looking forward to supporting the management team in this exciting next phase of the company's development," said Cheryl Potter, head of the Permira's consumer team.
Among the group of new hires, the name most familiar to tech insiders will be Messerschmidt, who joins the consumer team.
Kevin Mountford, of Moneysupermarket.com, told Radio 5 live's consumer team: "There has always been a perception that the current account is a valuable asset because clearly then the banks have our transactional data.
Greylock also recently added new talent to its own roster; bringing on Howcast co-founder and former Googler Sanjay Raman as a Senior Associate on the consumer team.
He was looking to expand CRV's consumer team when he found Justine, a recent Stanford economics graduate who was finishing a year-long stint at Goldman Sachs.
