Property promotions
PROPERTY agent CKD Galbraith has announced a range of promotions to partner, senior associate and associate level at its 12 offices around Scotland.
The company's four new partners are Rod Christie, who covers the residential sector and is based in Cupar, Fife, George Lorimer (residential, Cupar), Dougal Lindsay (rural and energy, Inverness) and Robert Taylor (agriculture and rural business finance, Ayr).
Seven new senior associates have been appointed, as well as four new associates, with the firm's overall team standing at 200 personnel.
CKD Galbraith chairman James Galbraith said: "We have a team of respected and experienced professionals, each committed to providing our clients with the highest level of service.
"I am delighted that our partnership will be strengthened with the promotion of several excellent members of staff across all business sectors in which we operate."
Board boosted
SOCIAL Investment Scotland (SIS), the body that provides funding to charities and social enterprises, has made five appointments to its board.
Mark Adderley, Jo Armstrong, Stewart Curruth, Gurjit Singh Lalli and Gerard O'Sullivan bring business, local government, social enterprise and the public sector expertise to the organisation at a time, it says, of heightened interest in social investment.
New chairman Professor Nick Kuenssberg said that focus means SIS has a "great opportunity to increase funds under management and connect more capital with more communities".
Enabling Tom
ENABLE Scotland, the learning disability charity, has appointed a new director of finance and technology.
Tom O'Hara brings both IT and finance experience to the role, having qualified as an accountant and served as managing director of Technology Services Group.
The appointment comes as Enable invests in new technology to ensure its systems are ready for changes in the social care market, including the emergence of Self Directed Support (SDS).
Walton to join IoD board
CHRIS Walton, the chairman of Lothian Buses and chairman of listed shipping company Goldenport Holdings, is set to join the board of the Institute of Directors (IoD).
Mr Walton, who joins the board on July 3 and will sit for three years, holds a range of nonexecutive roles in the private and public sectors. He is the senior independent director and audit chairman of listed oil company Rockhopper Exploration, and a member of the audit and risk committee of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
One of five new appointments to the IoD board, Mr Walton was finance director and chief financial officer of easyJet from 1999 to 2005, where he successfully directed its initial public offer (IPO).
Duffy lands at Muirhead
MUIRHEAD, the Scottish leather manufacturer, has appointed Dominic Duffy as sales vice president for Asia as it seeks to strengthen its position supplying leather to the region's growing aviation sector.
Mr Duffy joins Muirhead, part of the Scottish Leather Group, from cabin interiors specialist Zodiac, where he was territory manager for Asia.
He began as a manufacturing engineer with British Aerospace in the early 80s and has worked in the aviation industry since, based in Malaysia for the last four years.
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