Accident management business Helphire has appointed Mark Adams as group finance director, effective from April 1.

The current finance director, David Lindsay, who has been a member of the management team since 1996, will assume the responsibilities of group operations director.

David Robertson will continue with his current responsibilities for sales and marketing and he will now be able to focus increasingly on foreign expansion.

Adams has held a number of finance appointments, most recently as group finance director of Alpha Airports Group, an aviation support business which provides retail and catering services to airports and airlines.

Helphire's chairman, Rodney Baker-Bates, said: "We are faced with opportunities in our traditional business as well as in new markets and the increased strength of our top management team gives us the ability to exploit them."