Career watch

Career Watch will pick up on moves news that includes a little background on the mover - to illustrate how FDs and other executives with a financial background are making their way to the top. We kick off with the new FD at Wells & Young's, the recently merger brewer. Justin Phillimore is a classic example of the modern FD. He's got sector experience (finance and business development director of wine and spirits company Seagrams - he'd been there since 1993) but took an important step out of the finance function as general manager of global business development at GE SeaCo - marine container leasing is about as far from beverages as you can imagine. That makes him a very smart hire by the boards of Wells and Young's - with that CV he's certainly a contender for the CEO job one day, and coming in only as the merged group takes shape, he won't be burdened with any historical baggage from either camp. Smart.