Steve Robinson, currently head of finance within Young’s, will join the group’s Board and succeed Peter Whitehead as finance director on 6 September 2016, the pub company has announced.
Whitehead, who has been with Young’s for 19 years, will step down from the Board at that date.
Tracy Read, currently the company’s director of people, will also be promoted to the Board on the same date.
Robinson joined Young’s in June 2009 and has been head of finance since September 2013. He qualified as a chartered accountant with Deloitte and, before joining Young’s, held a number of finance roles at The Walt Disney Company.
Read joined Young’s in January 2015. Before that, during eight years at pub company The Orchid Group, she held a number of roles, most recently head of people.
Patrick Dardis, chief executive, said: “We are all extremely grateful to Peter. He has been a hugely effective Finance Director for us for almost two decades, a transformational period during which time a great deal has been achieved. It is to Peter’s great credit that he has built a strong finance function that has produced a natural successor in Steve Robinson. Steve is well qualified to take on the role, with an intimate knowledge of our business and our industry.
“Tracy’s elevation to our Board recognises the importance we place on having the right people and culture throughout our business, with training and development programmes to ensure we deliver outstanding customer service so our pubs reach their full potential. Our continued success requires this, and Tracy has the talent and experience to deliver it.”
Whitehead said: “It has been an enormously fulfilling 19 years. Young’s is a unique company with a great heritage and importantly a very clear view of the future. I will miss it greatly, but it is the right time for me to step down, and I am delighted that Steve will be succeeding me. He has played a central role in our finance function for a number of years and I know that he will be highly successful in his new role.”
