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Wasps have appointed Stephen Vaughan as group chief executive, following the departure of Stuart Cain who has joined Warwickshire County Cricket Club. Mr Vaughan joined Wasps last year after


seven years at Gloucester Rugby and took on responsibility for the Ricoh Arena club’s sporting activities. He will now oversee all group activities including conferences, exhibitions and concerts, as well as sponsorship and commercial activities. A former professional footballer with Walsall,


Mr Vaughan went on to become an award- winning senior executive at Thomas Cook, managing the travel operator’s Club 18-30 business before leading its London 2012 Olympic Games involvement. He said: “Wasps Group is a very dynamic


business with exciting potential in all its areas of activity. I have really enjoyed my role on the sporting side of the group and believe we now have that in very good shape. “I am really motivated in helping to drive


forward the overall business and helping to realise the exciting plans we have been putting in place in recent months.” Mr Cain, meanwhile, is replacing Neil


Snowball as Warwickshire’s chief executive. He moves to Edgbaston after three years at


Wasps where he held a number of positions and helped establish Wasps rugby and netball teams at the Ricoh Arena after the move from London.


New roles: Stephen Vaughan (left) and Stuart Cain have taken up new positions with major sports clubs Before joining Wasps, he spent more than


seven years with the NEC Group as managing director of commercial marketing and has also worked in football at Wolverhampton Wanderers and Glasgow Rangers. Mr Cain is expected to the Bears in August


following the departure of Snowball, who is to become the managing director of County Cricket with the England & Wales Cricket Board. He said: “Neil has really moved Warwickshire CCC forward and I’m relishing the opportunity


to build on his legacy. “The club has very proud traditions and its


men’s and women’s teams have achieved great success across all formats of the game. We need to continue this into the future. “In Edgbaston, we have one of the world’s


great sporting venues, which consistently stages the biggest fixtures in the game and offers outstanding facilities that can be utilised all year round. Part of my role will be to develop this multi-use philosophy further.”


Equipment specialist gets support from HSBC


Spillard Safety Systems, a supplier of specialist vehicle equipment, has secured a £525,000 loan from HSBC to help maintain critical supplier payments during lockdown. The Wolverhampton-based firm,


which mainly operates in the transport and quarrying sectors, supplies a range of vehicle safety solutions to high-profile companies including JCB, DHL and Volvo. The funding from HSBC has


allowed Spillard Safety Systems to maintain its payments during the pandemic to 40 different suppliers across the UK and China, as well as helping to ensure its furloughed colleagues receive their full salaries. The loan from HSBC was part of


Safety first: Managing director Pete Spillard and financial director Craig Spillard 28 CHAMBERLINK June/July 2020


the bank’s Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, available for existing customers with a group turnover of up to £45m. Craig Spillard, finance director at


Spillard Safety Systems, said: “The safety of our colleagues is paramount to our business. Our drivers travel great lengths of the country and were at risk, so we decided to put our business on lockdown a week prior to the Government’s official announcement. “At the same time, we needed to


protect the future of our business and, thanks to our relationship manager at HSBC, we were able to continue to make supplier payments critical to the future success of our business.” Zena Perry-Hartle, HSBC UK area


director Western Midlands Business Banking, added: “We were delighted to provide Spillard Safety Systems additional funding to help them during these unprecedented times, as well as offering financial stability for the company’s furloughed colleagues.”


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