Valerie Wallace as a property manager.

Mrs. Wallace began her career with the Ministry of Works and Engineering in 1981 and rose to the position of senior estates surveyor in 1989. There she was responsible for the estate management of Government's $800 million property portfolio (22 percent of Bermuda).

She was subsequently seconded to the Bermuda Land Development Company in 1995 to assist in redeveloping the Baselands (640 acres over four sites) until 1997.

Mrs Wallace then became Facilities Manager for Shire Training Workshops in the United Kingdom.

The company said: "Mrs Wallace's exceptional qualifications and experience are expected to be of great benefit to the rapidly growing property management section of Ted Gauntlett's practice where clientele rightly expect a highly organised professional service in today's demanding property market.

*** Suzanne DeCouto has joined aboutBermuda.com as the sales and marketing co-ordinator. The post has just been created for the new Internet company.

Mrs DeCouto is a graduate of the front office programme of the Bermuda Hotel College.

She has previously worked for Bermuda Island Cruises, Bank of Bermuda and the Visitor Industry Partnership. She will be responsible for co-ordinating the local marketing and sales functions for the business, liaising with clients and service providers as well as taking care of the maintenance and update of the web site.

aboutBermuda.com is a web site designed to assist employers with the relocations of employees from overseas. The site claims to provide information on everything there is to known about living, working and moving to Bermuda.

President of aboutBermuda.com, Douglas Soares said: "We believe that Suzanne will add tremendous value to our organisation.'' Val Wallace