GRANT Thornton has bolstered its Scottish leadership team with the appointment of two new partners.

The promotions of Stuart Preston and Neil McInnes come as the business sets it sights on further growth this year in the Scottish marketplace.

In 2018, the firm made a number of key hires across its three locations, in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, where it and opened a larger office in the city.

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Mr Preston joined Grant Thornton in 2008 and, in 2017 was appointed head of restructuring in Scotland. He works with both the private and public sector.

Mr McInnes joined Grant Thornton in 1998 and has specialised in corporate finance since 2002.

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A SENIOR oil and gas executive with more than 25 years’ experience has been elected as regional chairman on the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board.

Mitch Crichton, above, who is project delivery director for WorleyParsons in Aberdeen, will focus on the upstream oil and gas industry in the north-east of Scotland, with a view to up-skilling the workforce to ensure that it meets the challenges of the future.

One of Mr Crichton’s main roles with the construction skills body will be to ensure that regional activities are consistent with the board’s strategy providing consultation on skills development, it said.