Leading timber expert, Donaldson Group, has appointed Mark Murphy as Chief Risk Officer in a newly created role.
Mark’s appointment will see him join the Group’s board and executive team, and follows a period of significant growth for the business. As Chief Risk Officer, Mark will continue to support the expansion of the Group into a more diverse product range and service offering through the ongoing delivery of a risk management strategy. By building on the safety culture which has been driven by him and his team to date, and also creating and implementing standardised best practices across the Group, Mark will continue to identify and mitigate risks to make the business more resilient and more secure for stakeholders, and especially for colleagues.
Mark joined Donaldson Group in 1986 as a management trainee before taking roles as a production assistant, quality assurance representative, stock manager and mill foreman. He then moved into systems management firstly as integrated systems manager, and then head of occupational risk and compliance management.
The breadth of experience with the business over three decades gives Mark a thorough understanding of the Group’s strengths and challenges, and the needs of the evolving business.
