Based at its Harrogate office, Kirkham will report head of intermediary services, North, Jonty Warneken.

Kirkham was previously a consultant for Midas Investment Trust. Before this, he was a senior UK small/mid cap sales specialist at companies including Matrix Capital, Teather and Greenwood and Old Mutual. He also worked for a number of years as a private client asset manager at Brown Shipley (formerly Henry Cooke Lumsden).

In other news, earlier this year Sanlam appointed Craig McPherson as business development manager for the North.