Talent management business Parity Group has appointed Michael Aspinall as its new finance director as part of a board restructure.

In a statement, released this morning, the group revealed the former chief finance officer of Picsolve, an international provider of imagery capture, distribution platforms and retailing solutions, has been appointed to the board as group finance director, effective 14 September.

Interim group CFO Paul Bergin will continue in his role and attend board meetings until Aspinall joins the group, after which there will be an appropriate handover period. The appointment follows May’s departure of Alastair Woolley as group FD.

Aspinall’s appointment forms part of wider changes to Parity’s board and follows a 9 July announcement it was quitting its digital acquisition initiative to focus on core business. 

The board changes include:

• Chief executive Alan Rommell is appointed to the board with immediate effect.

• Group executive chairman Philip Swinstead will, later this year, be reducing his role from full time to three days a week with adjusted remuneration to reflect the time requirement given the group's revised strategy.

• Parity Professionals executive chairman Paul Davies will reduce his time working as a part-time executive director to two days per week with adjusted remuneration from 1 September.

• Director Andy Law has stepped down from the board with immediate effect but continues his role as director of Parity’s Inition digital technology business.

• Non executive director David Courtley also steps down from the board with immediate effect. 

Lord Roger Freeman continues to service as senior non-executive director, as does Neal Ransome as non-executive director.

The statement adds further details of board responsibilities will be provided along with Parity’s interim results announcement next month.