Appointments: Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks; Lindrick Accountancy Services; Kingspan
A NEW chief financial officer (CFO) has been appointed to Clydesdale Bank.
Ian Smith joins Clydesdale and Yorkshire’s Banks in October and will serve on the bank’s UK executive committee reporting to chief executive David Thorburn.
Smith joins from Deloitte where he has been a partner specialising in financial services for the past 12 years. In addition to his time at Deloitte, Smith held senior finance roles with Lloyds Banking Group in 2009 and HBOS in 2008.
David Thorburn, chief executive, said: “Ian brings tremendous expertise and experience gained from over 20 years of broad-based finance roles in both the financial and manufacturing sectors. I look forward to welcoming him as our new CFO and am confident his skills will be invaluable as we continue to build a better bank for our customers.”
Smith will take up the role which became vacant earlier this year when former CFO, Scott Butterworth, took up a new role with NAB Group in Australia.
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MIKE Smith and John Waining have been promoted to directors at Lindrick Accountancy Services.
Smith has been with the Dinnington-based firm for five years as tax manager and three years ago Waining joined as accounts manager.
Director, Andrew Moore, said: “We welcome the addition of Mike and John to the management team as we are looking to continue to grow the business and services over the coming years. Our aim is to grow our turnover by at least 10% per annum and expand our staff levels accordingly.”
Lindrick established in 1991 continue to provide a comprehensive accountancy, book-keeping, payroll, tax and VAT service to SME’s across all sectors in the South Yorkshire and North East Derbyshire area.
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KINGSPAN Access Floors, which has its manufacturing facilities in Hull, has strengthened its international sales team by appointing Chris Shipley as international sales manager.
Shipley will be based in the UK, giving Kingspan the flexibility to place additional resource into different international markets when required, although his area will be predominantly Eastern Europe.
He said: “I’m looking forward to helping to increase the coverage and presence of Kingspan in the specification market and also to strengthen and develop existing partnerships with our distributors and installers overseas, as well as looking at new routes to market.”
