IHG announces the appointment of Tom Singer to the Board and Executive Committee as Chief Financial Officer, effective 26 September 2011. Tom takes over the CFO role from Richard Solomons, who became Chief Executive on 1 July 2011. Since May 2008, Tom Singer has been Group Finance Director and a main Board member at BUPA, a leading provider of private health care insurance and health care services with over 10 million customers in over 190 countries and revenues of £7.6 billion. Tom has extensive commercial experience spanning strategy, finance and general management and has worked in both Europe and America. Prior to joining BUPA, Tom was with William Hill for five years, first as Group Finance Director and then as Chief Operating Officer. While there he took the private equity-owned business public. As Chief Operating Officer he was responsible for the running of over 2,200 betting shops, two call centres and the internet business - moving away from the finance brief to a more operationally led, general management role. He has also been Finance Director and a main board director at Moss Bros PLC and has held managerial positions with McKinsey & Company, where he spent five years and Price Waterhouse working in both London and New York. Tom is 48 years old, a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a BSC (Hons) in Economics & Accounting from the University of Bristol.