Provider of senior interim executives Alium Partners has promoted Nigel Peters to managing director.

The firm has also strengthened its team with a number of new appointments.

Emma Richards heads the firm’s procurement and supply chain practice, developing the practice and leading several existing major private and public sector accounts.

Bruce Muir has been hired as head of Alium’s IT practice. He works with large-scale organisations in both the private and public sectors, placing senior interim IT leaders into programme management and head of function roles.

Jon Ginder joins to serve the telecommunications market and is building the firm’s ERP practice, while John Woods focuses on the financial services sector across the disciplines of change & transformation and risk & regulation within consumer and investment banking.

The new recruits report to Nigel Peters.