David Arnold will succeed Colm ó Nualláin as the chief financial officer of Grafton Group in September.

Mr Arnold was most recently the group finance director of Enterprise, the infrastructure maintenance support services group. He also spent 7 years at the housebuilder Redrow, where he served as group financial dierctor.

Prior to joining Redrow in 2002, he held senior finance and treasury roles with Six Continents and Tarmac.