Law Debenture appoints Trish Houston as COO

Law Debenture has appointed Trish Houston as its new chief operating officer.

Houston, who officially took up the role on Wednesday, is a chartered accountant with almost 20 years of experience in financial services and high-growth businesses.

Most recently, she was a member of the senior management team at JDX Consulting Limited, where she had executive responsibility for HR, IT and facilities and oversaw the merger of three businesses. Previously, Houston was COO of Logical Glue Limited, a disruptive machine learning predictive analytics SAS platform, and co-founded the technology company Scaled Networks.

As previously announced, Hester Scotton will assume the role of chief financial officer following the departure of Katie Thorpe on 11 September, while Kelly Stobbs was recently promoted to General Counsel.

Chief executive Denis Jackson said: "We look forward to welcoming Trish to Law Debenture. Her insight and experience will be of great value. Trish's appointment and the promotions of Hester and Kelly mark an important step forward for the company and the executive team as we continue to invest to support our ambitious growth plans.

"The strengthened team is well positioned to build on the strong growth seen in the last few years."