Augean plc announced the appointment of Dr. Stewart John Rodney Davies as Chief Executive Officer with effect from August 2013. Stewart (52) joins from Romec Ltd. where he is Managing Director. He also holds the dual role of Managing Director for Balfour Beatty Technical Services.

Stewart has over 27 years of experience in the industrial services sector, working in management positions at industrial groups such as Serco, Corus and Rugby Cement. Stewart is also a Governing Board Member on the Technology Strategy Board. As announced at the time of his resignation, Paul Blacker has remained as CEO during his notice period but it is intended that he will progressively step down from his role and leave the Group by the end of March.

Paul has now handed over all day to day control of commercial and operational matters to Richard Allen, who will assume the role of Interim Chief Executive Officer until Stewart joins the Group. The Board has taken steps to strengthen the Group's finance team during the interim period to ensure adequate resources are in place to enable Richard to focus on his interim role.