This week's National appointments

This week’s round up of national appointments includes Sambro, Blackfinch Energy and ExecSpace. Read on to find out more.

Ben Armstrong, Sambro Ltd

The board of Sambro Ltd is pleased to announce the appointment of Ben Armstrong as Chief Financial Officer. Ben joins Sambro with over 20 years’ experience in finance, alongside a proven track record of success in implementing strategic developments within the FMCG and retail industries.

With a background in private-equity and other investor backed businesses, Ben has extensive international experience, with strong technical and commercial skills across FMCG and retail brands, including EV Cargo and KidKraft Toys & Furniture.

A chartered accountant and an MBA holder, Ben brings a wealth of experience in maintaining strong cash margins, working capital management, alongside a proven record in supporting commercial strategy development.

At Sambro, Ben will work alongside Paul Blackaby (CEO) to drive forward the firm’s impressive growth plans which include a projected £70m turnover by 2023.

Ben said: “Sambro is an outstanding company with a strong portfolio of toy brands and own brand products and I’m excited to join the organisation at this significant time in its ongoing growth. I look forward to working with Paul and the leadership team at Sambro to drive growth and ensure its continued success.”

Alan Gorman, Vuong Nguyen, and Sam Dickerson - Blackfinch Energy

Blackfinch Energy has welcomed three new important hires to its national team, with Alan Gorman, Vuong Nguyen, and Sam Dickerson joining as investment director, investment manager and senior commercial portfolio manager respectively.

Bringing more than 20 years’ experience and an extensive background in project finance and infrastructure investment, Alan Gorman previously spent five years with John Laing’s renewable energy and infrastructure team.

More recently he has been consulting on the launch of Clean Energy Capital, which was targeting advisory and investment mandates in the UK and European renewable energy sector. He is now tasked with working on new energy deals for the team and growing the current renewable energy portfolio.

Newly appointed investment manager Vuong Nguyen has five years’ worth of experience with companies such as Innova capital and Lightsource BP, where he supported the renewable energy development in different parts of the global industry.

He will now assist with the development of energy infrastructure deals throughout their lifecycle, drawing on his passion for helping the transition of the energy sector and focusing on sustainability and innovation.

Finally, Sam Dickerson joins Blackfinch as senior commercial portfolio manager, bringing more than 12 years’ experience in the energy sector to the role including 10 years working at Ecotricity where he managed the purchase power agreements and virtual power purchase, as well as financial modelling for development and acquisition projects.

Louise Lowe, Pamela McCaw, Logan Muir, Georgia Kinsella and Ellie McPhail - ExecSpace

Venue-finding agency ExecSpace has reshaped its senior management team and hired a number of new recruits to facilitate further growth and focus on quality of service. Founder and CEO Emma Little has appointed Louise Lowe as managing director to lead its expanding team.

Louise Lowe, previously the agency’s commercial director, joined the Edinburgh based company four years ago and has been promoted alongside Pamela McCaw who steps up from finance manager to head of finance and business operations.

The moves follow three hires of meetings and events executives: Logan Muir, Georgia Kinsella and Ellie McPhail.

Emma commented: “Given everything the business went through over the past two years due to Covid, I am chuffed to bits to see ExecSpace back firmly in growth mode. Louise, Pamela and I worked extremely closely during incredibly difficult times and for me it was a no brainer to reward that loyalty and great work with these two promotions.

“We are a very different business post pandemic, focused on quality and profit over quantity and activity which the high calibre leadership and new hires very much reflects. I am very much looking forward to watching the impact Louise and Pamela have and seeing the business grow from strength to strength.”


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