Interaction boosts office design team with new hires

Siouxzee Cummings, Walid Nader, Tyler Doak, Ollie Caunt and Tommaso Parenti

Recruitment, Careers & Skills

By Nicky Godding

7 February 2024

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Siouxzee Cummings, Walid Nader, Tyler Doak, Ollie Caunt and Tommaso Parenti

Bath-based workplace design and build company Interaction has expanded its team with six new appointments following a string of project wins.

The firm, which recently moved to new offices in the city, has appointed construction industry specialist Ollie Caunt as contracts director. He will head up Interaction’s contracts team and help manage a growing pipeline of new design projects.

Ollie has more than 10 years’ experience working in construction and project management, and joins Interaction from construction company Willmott Dixon, where he was operations manager.

Ollie said: “I’m very excited to be joining such a dynamic and creative company with a strong workplace culture. Interaction’s team-based ethos and can-do approach to challenges is hugely inspiring to me.”

Also joining Interaction as new project lead is Tyler Doak who will help to ensure that design projects are delivered perfectly, from start to finish. Tyler is returning to his former role at Interaction having previously worked for the firm between 2019 and 2020.

Meanwhile, Siouxzee Cummings joins Interaction as executive assistant to managing director Dieter Wood and commercial director Gary Duguid. This is a new role for the firm and will ensure Dieter and Gary have more time to share with staff, clients, and key partners.

Interaction also welcomes three new graduates - Katherine Webb, Walid Nader and Tommaso Parenti - who join the firm’s Project Academy as project administrators.

The raft of new appointments takes the firm’s total headcount to 56 and follows Interaction’s move to its new HQ called The Quarter. The firm has transformed the Grade II listed building in Edgar Mews, Bath, into a flexible new workspace, creating one of the largest new office developments in the area.

The move follows a record year for Interaction and a string of major design project wins. They include the design and fit-out of Osborne Clarke’s flagship workplace in Bristol’s Halo building, one of the UK’s greenest office developments.

Interaction’s Dieter Wood said: “We’re delighted to welcome so many new faces - and one not so new - to the team.

By Nicky Godding

Nicky Godding is editor of The Business Magazine. Before her journalism career, she worked mainly in public relations moving into writing when she was invited to launch Retail Watch, a publication covering retail and real estate across Europe.

After some years of constant travelling, she tucked away her passport and concentrated on business writing, co-founding a successful regional business magazine. She has interviewed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs who have built multi-million-pound businesses and reported on many science and technology firsts.

She reports on the region’s thriving business economy from start-ups, family businesses and multi-million-pound corporations, to the professionals that support their growth and the institutions that educate the next generation of business leaders.