Velocity Composites plc announced the appointment of Chris Williams as Group Finance Director with effect from August 4, 2020. Andrew Hebb, who has been the Company's Interim Finance Director and Company Secretary since January 2019, will remain available to provide an orderly hand over. Chris brings a broad range of experience, most recently in the position of Finance and Commercial Director at Bettys Café Tea Rooms, part of the Bettys & Taylors Group Ltd, which also owns and operates Yorkshire Tea and Taylors of Harrogate coffee. Previously he has held strategic and divisional finance roles at the engineering group Caparo Industries plc, Shazans the food company and 2 Sisters Food Group, where he worked closely with its Directors on new business starts and growth initiatives.