By Lucy Deane, Ruston Wheb Executive Search
Katherine Symonds has left Tesco, where she was sustainability manager in the public affairs team, to join Coca-Cola in the UK, as public affairs manager, focusing on the company’s sponsorship of the London 2012 Olympics.
Zurich Financial Services, the Swiss financial group, has appointed Karin Reiter as group corporate responsibility manager. Reiter joined Zurich in 2004 and has held several positions within Zurich International Life’s legal and compliance department, lastly as legal counsel.
AT&T, the US telecoms giant, has appointed Charlene Lake to the position of senior vice-president and the company’s first chief sustainability officer. Lake has worked in public affairs and communications. She was most recently head of AT&T’s philanthropic initiatives.
In Norway, SN Power, a developer and operator of hydropower projects, has appointed Elsbeth Tronstad as executive vice-president for communications and corporate social responsibility, effective from September 1. She was previously executive director for communication at NHO (the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise) and also worked for ten years at Swiss power and automation group ABB.
Parsons Brinckerhoff, the New York-headquartered construction and engineering consultancy, has named Paul Morris as executive vice-president and global director of strategic consulting and sustainability. He had been vice-president at Cherokee Investment Partners before rejoining Parsons Brinckerhoff in May this year.
Morrison, a UK provider of maintenance services and capital projects to the housing sector, has appointed Darren Hill as its national environmental adviser to work on carbon management. He joins from WYG, a consultancy, where he was a principal environmental consultant.
South Africa’s biggest wine and spirits producer and marketer, Distell, has appointed Jacques Rossouw as its new environmental manager to measure and manage its carbon footprint. Rossouw has worked as an environmental regulator in Australia and was most recently manager of the South African wine industry’s integrated wine production programme.
Emma Howard Boyd, head of socially responsible investment at Jupiter, an asset manager, has been appointed to the board of the UK Environment Agency. The role on the government agency is part-time and will last for three years.