Finance Monthly March 2019 Edition

63 www.finance-monthly.com APPOINTMENTS FTI Consulting Strengthens its Business Transformation Practice with the Appointment of Gary Hughes as Senior Adviser Global business advisory consultancy FTI Consulting announced the appointment of Gary Hughes as Senior Adviser to its UK Business Transformation team. Gary is an experienced international business leader with a proven plc and private equity track record and has worked for many years at Board level in both executive and non-executive capacities, including for J Sainsbury plc, Majid Al Futtaim Retail LLP, Booker Group plc, Gala Coral Group and EMAP. He also worked as an Operating Executive at Apax Partners for 6 years, where he assisted deal teams with pre-acquisition due diligence and worked extensively with portfolio companies on improving performance, transformational change and business process improvement. Simon Granger, Senior Managing Director and Head of FTI Consulting’s EMEA Corporate Finance & Restructuring practice said: “Gary is a highly respected leader who has a proven record across a wide range of sectors and a reputation for delivering business success, as well as an extensive network in both the corporate and private equity space. I know that our clients will benefit from his counsel and expertise, and am delighted that he has joined our growing Business Transformation team.” EY has announced the appointment of Silvia Rindone as an Advisory Partner in its Strategy team in the UK. Silvia joins from Capgemini Consulting where she was leading the Business Model Transformation Practice and was part of the Consulting Leadership team. Silvia has extensive experience in developing growth strategies, designing and implementing operating models and leading technology-enabled business transformation programmes. She has over 20 years’ experience in Consumer Goods and Retail having worked with leading companies in the sector in the UK, Europe and across the globe. Silvia holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Universita’ Luigi Bocconi in Milan, Italy. In 2012, she was made the Management Consultancies Association’s (MCA) ‘Strategy Consultant of the Year’. Commenting on her appointment, Silvia said: “I joined EY because of the culture, the entrepreneurial spirit at the firm and the talented and dynamic team of people I would get to work with. I am also very excited about helping to drive growth in the firm’s Advisory practice. “My focus will be working on business transformation with FTSE 100 and 250 consumer goods and retail clients in the UK and across the globe. I am looking forward to advising my clients to help shape their future and capitalise on the numerous transformational growth opportunities in a rapidly evolving digital environment.” Stephen Lambert, Managing Partner of EY’s Advisory practice in the UK and Ireland added: “We’re delighted to have Silvia join us as a Partner at EY. Silvia has a track record of working with some of the leading Consumer Products and Retail organisations and will be a real asset to the Advisory team and wider firm. EY Strengthens its Strategy Consulting Team with Key Appointment Deloitte has appointed Chris Bostock as a Director in its financial crime practice. With over 15 years’ experience, Bostock joins from the economic crime team at the National Crime Agency (NCA) where he was the threat lead for money laundering. He led the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce - a public-private partnership between the NCA and over 45 other public and private institutions. Previously Bostock worked for the Serious Organised Crime Agency and the National Criminal Intelligence Service in a range of roles focussing on economic crime. This new hire is part of the continued growth of Deloitte’s financial crime and cyber security practice, including employing an additional 500 people across Europe. Bostock follows the appointment of senior partner Rob Wainwright from Europol in 2018 in the firm’s European cybersecurity practice. Tom Scampion, partner and financial crime lead for the EMEA region at Deloitte, commented on Bostock’s appointment: “Chris is a high profile leader in financial crime prevention in the UK, with a wealth of practical experience and an impressive network at banks, government agencies and law enforcement. Appointing Chris in the midst of an unprecedented appetite for change within financial crime will reinforce Deloitte as the market leader at the heart of economic crime reform and delivery to our UK and international clients.” Bostock added: “At the forefront of economic crime reform is an acceptance of the fundamental importance of public and private partnerships in tackling financial crime. I plan to nurture partnerships to improve outcomes for both sectors in this rapidly changing market. I feel uniquely placed to help Deloitte achieve a competitive advantage in the practical delivery of change, here and overseas.” Chris Bostock Joins Deloitte’s Financial Crime Practice