Appointments: Yorkshire Building Society; Humber LEP; Lovell; Animalcare

YORKSHIRE BUILDING SOCIETY has recruited Alison Hutchinson, a former senior executive of IBM, as a non-executive director.

Mrs Hutchinson has more than 20 years’ of senior management experience within the financial services and technology sectors.

She started her career at IBM, rising to a global leader of digital solutions for the financial services sector, before joining Barclays Bank where she became marketing director at Barclaycard. She subsequently joined Kensington Mortgages and was made group chief executive, leading the turnaround of the business including its sale to Investec in 2008.

Mrs Hutchinson is currently chief executive of the Pennies Foundation, a charity which supports digital donations to good causes, as well as a Trustee of the Charities Aid Foundation and a non-executive director of Aviva Life Holdings.

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FORMER senior civil servant at the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS), Isobel Mills, has been appointed to the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership Board.

Ms Mills was with the Government office for Yorkshire and the Humber from its inception in 1994 until it closed in 2011.

Subsequently she became a director of the Yorkshire and Humber and North East team for the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) until 2014.

During her time at BIS, her team played a key part in supporting the development of the Local Enterprise Partnership for the Humber, and securing in its City and Growth Deals. She will chair the Humber LEP’s European Structural Investment Fund sub-committee which is responsible for stewarding the LEP’s grant funding programmes.

She was awarded a CBE in 2011 for services to the Yorkshire and Humber region.

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ROY Mowbray has joined Leeds-based affordable housing developer and regeneration specialist Lovell as business development manager for the company’s Eastern region.

Mr Mowbray was previously development and partnerships manager for Waterloo Housing Group. In his new role, he will support the company’s clients as well as securing new opportunities for the business – which provides housing new-build, regeneration, refurbishment and planned maintenance services – across Yorkshire, the East Midlands and North East.

During his career, Mr Mowbray has specialised in large-scale housing regeneration projects with expertise in joint venture working and in forming partnerships with local authorities for the development of new homes.

Lovell builds new affordable homes and open market homes for sale, undertakes major regeneration developments and carries out housing refurbishment programmes as well as delivering planned maintenance services.

VETERINARY products group Animalcare has welcomed George Gunn as a non-executive director.

Mr Gunn stepped down recently as head of the animal health division and from the executive committee of Novartis AG last month.

He has extensive experience in animal health pharmaceuticals over a career that has spanned 30 years within the industry including the Wellcome Foundation, Janssen Pharmaceutical, Pharmacia Corporation and Novartis, where he has worked since 2003.

In his early career Mr Gunn worked as a veterinary practitioner in Scotland before joining the Ministry of Agriculture as a veterinary officer advising on notifiable disease issues.

James Lambert, chairman of the York-based group, said: “I am very pleased to welcome George Gunn on to the board of Animalcare. George’s achievements in animal health are extensive and impressive in equal measure. George will complement the skills of the existing board members and bring additional commercial and product development experience to the team to help deliver our strategy. We are very excited by the additional momentum provided by George’s appointment and believe the future is looking bright for the business.”