Three months after joining Crown Paints Limited, the largest independent decorative coatings manufacturer in the UK and Eire, Kathryn Hill has been appointed as Financial Director and board member.
Kathryn brings to her new role at Crown Paints over twenty years of experience as a senior financial manager and finance director across a broad range of industries and disciplines including auditing, manufacturing, asset management and logistics.
Thirteen years as a senior manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers provided Kathryn with the opportunity to work closely with a portfolio of blue chip clients operating in many diverse sectors of the market, giving her the broadest possible exposure to all aspects of financial accounting, auditing and business transactions. She then spent four years as Finance Director at Plaxton, the coach builder, followed by five years as European finance director with TrenStar Inc, an international asset management and integrated logistics company.
CEO Brian Davidson said that he was “delighted to have a financial director of such a high calibre joining the board”. Referring to the 2008 management buyout, which saw Crown Paints gain its independence from Dutch coatings conglomerate Akzo Nobel, he commented, “Kathryn’s financial knowledge and her breadth of experience across so many different areas of the private sector will be invaluable as Crown Paints continues to make progress as the UK’s major paint manufacturing business.”
The past twelve months have seen the appointment of five new directors to the Crown Paints board, including Brian Davidson to the position of CEO. He said, “Building a high calibre management team to re-energise this business has been a cornerstone of our development strategy, and we’ve taken great care to appoint the most talented and experienced individuals we can find, recruiting from outside and promoting from within. As a result we’re now much more entrepreneurial in our thinking, and lighter on our feet than we’ve ever been, which makes Crown Paints an exciting place to be right now. Filling the remaining critical post of FD marks a turning point for the company as it means we can now focus all our attention on the road ahead and really drive the business forward.”
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