Germany: Schenck Process has appointed Keith Cochrane as chairman and Harry Kenyon-Slaney as a member of its Advisory Board. The appointments follow the completion of Blackstone’s acquisition of the measuring and process technology equipment company.

Cochrane is currently the interim chief executive officer (CEO) of Carillion, prior to which he served as the CEO of the Weir Group, a manufacturer of highly-engineered products and services for the minerals, oil and gas and power industries. He joined Weir as Finance Director in July 2006 and was appointed CEO in November 2009. In 2015, Cochrane was appointed as the UK Government’s Lead Non-Executive Director for the Scotland Office and Office of the Advocate General. He is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. Cochrane was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and appointed CBE in 2016.

Kenyon-Slaney is currently Non-Executive Chairman at Gem Diamonds having been appointed in June 2017. He holds over 33 years of experience in the mining industry, principally with Rio Tinto. Until 2015, Kenyon-Slaney was a member of the Group Executive committee of Rio Tinto where he held the roles of CEO of Energy, and before that CEO of Diamonds and Minerals. Kenyon-Slaney also serves as a senior advisor to McKinsey & Co.

In addition, Lionel Assant, Juergen Pinker and Saleh Panahi, all of Blackstone, have been appointed to the Advisory Board.