White Young Green boss goes

WHITE Young Green, the building, housing and environment consultant, today revealed chief executive Lawrie Haynes had left the business by “mutual agreement”.

Chief operating officer Paul Hamer has become group managing director of the group, which has operations in Manchester and Liverpool, with immediate effect.
Mr Haynes joined the company in June 2007 from Warrington-based nuclear giant BNFL.

New MD Mr Hamer will report to Peter Wood, WYG’s chairman, who will spend more time with the business following the changes.

Mr Wood said WYG needed to ensure it was in a position to recover from the economic downturn.

He said: “Over the last few months White Young Green’s priorities have changed in response to the challenging economic environment. Whilst our primary responsibilities remain to ensure that we continue to deliver high quality services to all our clients, we now also need to ensure the business is in the right shape to exploit the recovery when it arises.

“We will have a more efficient cost base and our business model will be focused on the key commercial growth areas as outlined in our business strategy. The Board believes the changes we are making today underpin that strategy.

“I would like to thank Lawrie Haynes for the contribution he has made to the Group over the past 18 months.”

Last month, Mr Wood told shareholders at WYG’s annual general meeting that the group’s profitability and borrowings remained in line with expectations.