Darrell Matthews is the new managing director for SELECT, Scotland’s leading electrotechnical trade organisation.
It is Scotland’s largest trade association and its membership carries out more than 90 per cent of all electrical installation work.
With a turnover of more than £1b, the industry provides employment for 15,000 people.
Darrell said: “This is an organisation which is keen to grow and to promote its members and create a safer and better regulated industry.”
Kevin Griffin, SELECT President, said: “Darrell was the outstanding candidate from a long list of applicants.”
Experienced news, business, arts, sport and travel journalist. Food critic and managing editor of a well-established food and travel website. Also a magazine editor of publications with circulations of up to 200,000 and managing director of a long-established PR/marketing company with a string of blue-chip clients in its CV. Former communications lecturer at a Scottish university and social media specialist for a string of successful and busy SMEs.