Semta, the Sector Skills Council for Science, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies, has appointed automotive industry organisation chief Sarah Sillars (pictured) as its new Chief Executive..
Currently the Executive Chair of IMI (The Institute of the Motor Industry) and previously its Chief Executive, Sillars will remain as part time Executive Chair of IMI until the end of the year before taking up the full time position with Semta from next January. The move sees something of a turn of the quango merrygoround, IMI being the Sector Skills Council and professional association for the retail motor industry.
She replaces Philip Whiteman who retired in May.
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About Ken Hurst
Ken Hurst began his career as a journalist in London over 30 years ago, working on a range of publications before moving on to weekly newspaper production in the newly-independent Zambia of the 1970s.
He returned to the UK where his work included spells on newspapers and magazines, before moving to head up Norwich Union’s corporate affairs division.
In the 1990s he moved on to freelance, co-own and publish the B2B audio magazine Sound and front the BBC radio Yesterday’s Papers programme. There followed six years as Business Editor at Britain’s biggest selling regional daily newspaper, The Eastern Daily Press, where he led an award-winning team and for whom he still writes a weekly socio/political comment column. Subsequently, he was Group Editorial Director at CBM, responsible for its UK and US magazine output – including The Manufacturer magazine – research-driven industry reports and live events content. Currently he is Contributing Editor at Works Management magazine publisher Findlay Media and Chairman of the consumer publishing house TNT Multimedia Ltd.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the British Association of Communicators in Business.
Semta, the Sector Skills Council for Science, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies, has appointed automotive industry organisation chief Sarah Sillars (pictured) as its new Chief Executive..
