Peter Vardy appoints first motor division managing director
CAMERON Wade has been appointed managing director of the motor division at Peter Vardy Group, the automotive retailing business.
In this newly-created role, Mr Wade will help support the continued expansion of Peter Vardy as it makes progress towards its 2020 vision and objectives.
He said: “This is a newly created role to aid expansion and allow our chief executive to dedicate more time to strategic growth both in the motor trade sector and also into new business opportunities.”
During a successful two years as commercial director at Peter Vardy, Mr Wade’s primary role was to support the development of the Vauxhall division and key head office functions to deliver record profit growth during this period.
Mr Wade trained as a chartered accountant with Ernst & Young before joining the motor trade. He worked initially at Reg Vardy, running the Mercedes businesses, before moving to Parks Motor Group and its BMW/Mini businesses.
Peter Vardy, chief executive said: “Since Cameron joined us again in 2014 he has done an outstanding job as commercial director and I believe he will help take our business on to secure yet bigger and better achievements in the coming months and years.”
eCom Scotland makes key appointments
LEARNING technologies provider, eCom Scotland, has made a series of appointments to strengthen its business development and account management functions.
Geoff Chapman has been appointed as vice president business development, responsible for growing the client base in new and existing sectors. He will report to Linda Steedman, eCom’s chief executive officer.
Meanwhile, Helen Robertson joins ecom’s business development team as external relations manager and will be responsible for fostering new relationships across a number of key sectors.
eCom has also announced the appointment of Judy Bloxham as Learning Technologies Consultant.
Ms Steedman, said: “We are delighted to welcome Geoff, Helen and Judy to eCom. They bring with them a wealth of learning technologies knowledge and relationship management experience. eCom has achieved a 30 per cent year-on-year revenue growth for the last three years as well as doubling staff numbers. Our new business development function will help us to accelerate this growth by forging new client partnerships and expansion into new markets.”
Anglo Irish Bank names new Scottish regional director
BILLY Macleod has joined Anglo Irish Bank (GB) as its regional director for Scotland and North England as part of a series of four regional director appointments across the UK.
The company said the appointments emphasised its national commitment and understanding of the importance that strong regional growth has to the UK economy.
It added that the regional directors are managing dedicated teams who focus their efforts on ensuring that owner managed businesses have the advice they need to take their businesses forward.
The success of this approach was seen in AIB (GB)’s recently announced full year lending figures for 2015. The bank maintained a strong performance, with new business lending rising by 57 per cent in 2015 to £1.6bn.
Mr Macleod joins from Clydesdale Bank, where he was head of business development for the east coast of Scotland. He is also a board member of the West Lothian Chamber of Commerce.
Mr Macleod said: “The time is absolutely right to support the local economy growth through a high touch relationship banking service. Our customers are experiencing more frequent opportunities to grow their businesses, either organically or through collaborations.”
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