PhotonStar LED Group plc appointed Russell Banks as Group Finance Director with effect from 2 April 2013. David Holloway, the current finance director is stepping down and will leave the Group. Russell was previously Chief Financial Officer at Ark Therapeutics plc Prior to that he was Senior Director of Finance, Europe at NASDAQ listed biopharmaceutical company, Cephalon Inc, and until 1998 he was Group Financial Controller at mail order business, Compton & Woodhouse Ltd.