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FWB Park Brown are pleased to have advised major convenience retailer and wholesaler CJ Lang on the appointment of Guy Smith as CFO. Guy has had a distinguished career across a range of retail, FMCG and leading blue-chip consumer focussed organisations including Unilever and Coca-Cola, and most recently as FD for Costa Express where he […]

FWB Park Brown are pleased to have advised Robertson Group on their appointment of Doug Keillor as Executive Managing Director of Robertson Construction Group. Adam Brown commented, “having advised Robertson Group on several senior appointments over the past couple of years, we were delighted to be able to help with the appointment of Doug. He […]

Fascinating but very sobering thoughts emerged from a lunch and debate in the FWB Park Brown Boardroom with a number of Non-Executives of leading companies employing tens of thousands across a wide variety of sectors. We posed a straightforward question for them: “As business leaders do we feel more vulnerable now than we did back […]

We are delighted to report that one of our clients, Neurodiversity charity Salvesen Mindroom Centre has launched its Neuroinclusion At Work Programme – the UK’s first programme to support workers who are neurodivergent. Backed by the Scottish Government this programme has the aim of helping those with neurodivergence such as autism, dyslexia and dyspraxia. The […]

We were pleased to have advised on Brett Sadler’s appointment as Chief Executive of West Highland Housing Association. It is an exciting time given the growth of the organisation, recent stock transfer from Link Group and appointment of Michael Driscoll as Director of Customer Services which will add to and compliment the strong team already in place. Brett […]

Café 21 on Newcastle’s Quayside provided the location and we were joined by a number of the North East’s rapidly growing businesses and brilliant entrepreneurs, as well as critical supporters of the scale-up ecosystem. Jaclyn Needham, Director of FWB Park Brown, kicked off the discussion and introduced the speaker for the evening – Mark Dixon, […]

Miele’s Edinburgh Experience Centre provided an excellent venue to host an intimate roundtable of Branded and Family Owned businesses to discuss the critical activity of succession planning in an increasingly difficult market and posed the question – is this the end of the linear job path? The discussion was led by John Pickering, MD of […]

OneBanks HUB, the shared branch banking innovator has appointed Marianne (“Mara”) Lillian Breen-Hart as its new Chief Operating Officer and Louise Smith as a Non-Executive Director as it prepares to scale up to a national roll-out of its technology and operations later this year. Commenting on the appointments, Lindsay Cramond, Director of FWB Park Brown […]