Loss adjusting company Davies Group has made three strategic board level management appointments and spoken of its plans to invest £1m in technology.
Following the announcement in March this year that Davies had raised £27m in private equity money for a management buyout, the company has been working to reorganise its management structures.
The business has hired Gary Lumsdon as group finance director, Sandra Postles as group HR director and Joe Mernagh as IT director.
Mr Mernagh, who previously worked as a director-level IT consultant, will oversee Davies' plans to improve its IT systems, which is expected to take up to 18 months to complete.
Speaking to Post's editor-in-chief Anthony Gould in an 'audience with' web interview, which appears on Post Online from today, Mark Chapman, managing director at Davies Group, said: "IT is a big issue for us but it needed to become more sophisticated, more flexible and more supportive of our professional staff."
Prior to joining Davies, Mr Lumsdon was at Hogg Robinson's Swiss subsidiary. He has over 10 years' frontline experience in senior finance and mergers and acquisitions.
Ms Postles, who joins Davies from National Savings and Investments, has been employed to establish a new HR strategy that will create the platform for Davies to deliver its ambitious growth plans. |