By Victoria Jordan, Ruston Wheb
Partners In Planning Financial Services Ltd (PIP) has announced the appointment of David Carson to the position of chief compliance and ethics officer. Carson is responsible for regulatory matters, sales and marketing compliance, corporate ethics, and for ensuring the highest level of ethical standards, policies, procedures and compliance. Prior to joining PIP, Carson held management positions with a number of leading financial organisations including Citigroup Global Markets Canada, Nesbitt Burns and Connor Clark & Company.
Ethics SA, the international ethical standard certification company, has appointed Johan Schotte, Jean-Jacques Miauton, Patrick A Sulzer and Nicolas Leuba to its board of directors. They will begin to serve on the board of Ethics SA immediately as they were voted in unanimously at an extraordinary general shareholders’ meeting held at Ethics SA’s global headquarters near Geneva in Switzerland.
Total has appointed Chibuzor Ugwoha, as managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
PricewaterhouseCoopers has appointed David Adair as its new head of community affairs. In his new role, Adair will take charge of schemes aimed at promoting social inclusion in the areas where PwC is based. Adair joined PwC’s community affairs team in 2001.
Nigel Smith is stepping down as head of KPMG’s corporate responsibility advisory to establish his own boutique consultancy, Corporate Balance. In his new role Smith will be offering clients strategic corporate responsibility and broader sustainability support.
Co-operative Asset Management has promoted Abigail Herron as corporate governance manager in its responsible investment team. Herron was previously a corporate governance analyst at the company.
Shanghai-based Advent-Oriental Asset Management, a private equity boutique, has appointed Brandon Freztner to address sustainability matters within the company and to advise portfolio companies on environmental, social and governance issues. Freztner joins from JM Merrick where he was an associate director in the risk and sustainability team.