Sarwjit Sambhi has been appointed chief executive at St Modwen following the departure of Mark Allan to head up Landsec. Sarwjit Sambhi will take up the CEO role at the beginning of November Sambhi, who was most recently chief executive of Centrica Consumer and a member of the board at Centrica, will take up the role on 2 November. He held various senior positions during his 19-year tenure at the energy group, including strategy, finance, major capital projects and renewable energy, before leading its consumer business which included providing energy and home services to the nine million customers of British Gas. Prior to Centrica, Sarwjit was at the technology and management consultancy, Booz Allen & Hamilton.