Haden Drysys Environmental has appointed Andrew Piearcey to the position of sales manager for the southern region. He joins the company from biotechnology-based company Bord Na Mona.
Adri Baan is to join the board of ICI as a non-executive director. Before his retirement in March, Baan was executive vice president of Royal Philips Electronics.
The CBI has appointed Ian McCafferty, previously head of macro-economics at BP, as its chief economic advisor.
Glyn Horner is to head up a new office in Wiesbaden, Germany for Genevac. Homer is a Genevac evaporation specialist with extensive experience of the German pharmaceutical market.
Dow has appointed George Blitz as business vice president of the newly-formed Dow Custom & Fine Chemicals unit.
Thermo Allen Coding has promoted Dave Clark to the position of mechanical design manager to head up its new product development department.
Boxes Edson has appointed Martin Street as UK business development manager. Martin joins from MY Healthcare, with 14 years experience within the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector.
Walter Eschenmoser has been given overall responsibility for communications/investor relations of the Swiss-based Lonza Group.
Prof John O'Reilly is the new chief executive for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. He succeeds Prof Richard Brook on 1 October.