CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS
Foresters
The friendly society has hired industry heavyweight Graham Berville to the board as a non-executive director. Berville was formerly director of the Association of Friendly Societies and chairman of the Association of Mutual Insurers, as well as a member and chairman of various Association of British Insurers (ABI) committees.
Prior to joining Foresters, he spent seven years as chief executive of the Police Mutual.
Altium
The stockbroking firm has appointed Hamish Dickson as head of securities.
Dickson formerly worked for 16 years at ABN Amro, where he held a number of senior roles including head of European sales, head of equity sales and joint
head of global institutional equities, where he was responsible for 850 staff across 20 countries.
Most recently, he worked as head of equities at Daniel Stewart during the firm’s restructuring as an institutional broker.
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Alan McCrae has joined the accountancy giant’s London team as an energy partner, leading the energy, utilities and mining tax team.
McCrae qualified with Ernst & Young in 1991 and eventually led the firm’s oil and gas tax practice globally. In addition to being closely involved with advising on the UK and international tax aspects of transactions and deal-related activities for multinationals, he also advised a number of independent oil and gas companies with headquarters in the UK and overseas.
Citibase
The serviced office firm has appointed Jonathan Addis as finance director.
Addis, a chartered accountant, was previously investment director at the private equity divisions of the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB.
He was most recently group finance director at construction, property and development consultancy DBK Group.
Burton’s Foods
The biscuit group has appointed Ben Clarke as chief executive officer.
Clarke was most recently area director and vice president of Kraft Foods UK/Ireland, and has also been a director of the Food and Drink Federation, the Institute of Grocery Distributors and a council member of ISBA.
Sepura
The digital radio group has hired Stephen Mole as its new chief financial officer, replacing Steve Crowther, who steps down after six years at the firm.
Mole joins from Filtronic, where he was chief financial officer, and has held finance roles at Renold, Unilever and ICI. He is also a non-executive director of the Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust.