Former directors return to McStone
Two former senior directors of McCarthy Stone have returned to the retirement housebuilder, with Kim Caldwell re-joining as group sales and marketing director and Brendon O’Neill named divisional managing director of the company’s Southern division.
Caldwell worked at McStone from 2002 to 2018 in several roles, including marketing director and resales director. Since 2018, she has been Bellway Homes’ sales director.
Caldwell will now, from June 12, oversee the firm’s group-wide sales and marketing activity, including delivering its brand strategy and developing McStone’s diversification into rental and other tenures.
O’Neill was welcomed back on April 17 as Shane Paull’s successor; Paull took up his role?as chief operating officer on April 3.??O’Neill was previously divisional md of McStone’s South East region and held similar roles at Barratt, Bovis and most recently Persimmon.
He will manage the division’s?14 open and selling sites and its 13 sites in development, as well as buying 12 new sites a year. He will report to ceo John Tonkiss, with Caldwell reporting to Shane Paull. The Southern operation covers Hampshire, across to Cornwall and South Wales.
In 2022, McStone completed 1,210 new units.