OUTGOING Wood Group chief executive Bob Keiller is to become the new chairman at Scottish Enterprise.

Mr Keiller announced last month he plans to step down from the energy services giant.

Now it has been confirmed the entrepreneur will take over from Crawford Gillies at the economic development agency from January for an initial three-year term.

Mr Gillies, who has non-executive director roles at Barclays, SSE and Standard Life, has been in the Scottish Enterprise post since February 2009.