New FD for sports nutrition firm

EAST Lancashire-based sports nutrition company Science in Sport has appointed Elizabeth Lake as finance director.

She takes up the post with effect from July 18. Lake, 48, brings extensive financial and commercial experience to the management team at the AIM-listed Nelson company.

For the past four years, she has been the finance director at Hugo Boss UK and Ireland where, in addition to being responsible for the finance, accounting and business intelligence functions, she oversaw new store growth through the selection and acquisition of new sites.
 
Lake has also worked at listed companies Marks and Spencer, Pearson and Thomson Reuters.

She is ACA qualified having trained at Coopers and Lybrand.

Science in Sport chief executive Stephen Moon said: “I am very pleased to have added such a highly experienced and commercially oriented finance director to our leadership team.

“We are in a period of rapid expansion, both domestically and internationally, and Elizabeth’s skills will be an undoubted asset as we seek to extend further our market leadership in endurance sports nutrition.”