New
Director General
David Wright joins us as our new Director General, taking over from Rod Pesch in January 2015.
Beginning his career in the oil sector with Mobil Oil Co Ltd, now part of ExxonMobil, David held roles in marketing, sales and territory management, earning the company’s Pegasus Elite award for outstanding sales performance in 1992.
He joined Save Service Stations Ltd as National Marketing Manager in 1994, helping to steer the company through its acquisition of Burmah-Castrol’s retail fuels business to become the seventh largest fuels retailer in the UK.
David joined Safeway Stores PLC in 1997 as Marketing Manager for the company’s loyalty card scheme ABC where he led the development of the programme to become the highest rated customer loyalty scheme amongst all grocery multiples.
Following the planned merger of Safeway with Asda announced in 2000, David left to join the Chartered Institute of Marketing as Head of Marketing where he increased membership to 60,000 in the world’s leading professional body for marketing, and increased training sales by 20%.
In 2003, he was appointed to the board of the Institute of Sales & Marketing Management as Operations Director reporting to the Chairman where David delivered increases in membership by relaunching the core
proposition of the Institute to the sector.
David was asked to join the
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, a Non-Departmental Public Body to the Department for Education in 2004 to set up a new professional body for teachers in educational assessment. The Institute of Educational Assessors launched in October 2005 and achieved its Royal Charter in the following year. As Chief Executive, David led the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors to a membership of 15,000 and saw the organisation become a leading influence on government policy in education and assessment.
In 2011, he joined the Department for Education as Assistant Director where David was responsible for the supply of teachers and led the reform of initial teacher training to a school-led system of provision. Under David’s direction teacher training recruitment achieved the best results seen for a generation with the sector attracting the highest number of, and the highest quality of, graduates across all subject areas.
We welcome David to the UKLA and wish him every success for the future.
LINK
www.ukla.org.uk
Evonik announces new Engine Oil Lab Manager
Oil Additives at Evonik has announced that Dr. Katrin Schoeller assumed the position of Engine Oil Lab Manager in Darmstadt Product Development. In her new position, she will lead Evonik’s ongoing efforts to develop new product technology for formulating next generation engine oils.
Previously, Dr. Schoeller worked for the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) as a project leader for joint research projects and various other assignments in cooperation with industry partners. Dr. Schoeller joined Empa in 2012 as the “Marie-Curie Fellow,” working to develop new stimuli-responsive polymeric materials.
Dr. Schoeller received her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Max
Planck- Institute for Polymer Research in 2012. Her thesis focused on the synthesis of polymer single-chain particles and inorganic/organic hybrid nanocapsules using miniemulsions. She earned her master’s degree in chemistry from University of Ulm in Germany, focusing on polymer chemistry.
LINK
www.evonik.com/oil-additives
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