IoD takes on first md from Diners Club

Diners Club sales and marketing director Andrew Wilson is leaving the company to become the first managing director of the Institute of Directors.

He has been with Diners Club for three years, most recently overseeing the deal with British Airways to produce a co-branded charge card (MW July 19).

It is not yet known who will replace him at the finance company.

“It’s been a satisfying time for me at Diners Club,” he says. “Sales have increased by 60 per cent over the past three years and I expect 35 per cent sales growth over the next 12 months.”

At the IoD he will report to the director general Tim Melville-Ross, who joined last year from the Nationwide Building Society, where he was chief executive.

Wilson will head IoD Enterprises, a recently formed division. It includes a number of operations ranging from publishing – it publishes the monthly Director magazine – to conferences, travel, and man- agement recruitment.

The organisation has over 50,000 members.

Last month the IoD lost its marketing director, Mike Bokaie, who was also managing director of Director Publications.

The institute is not seeking a replacement for Bokaie, with Wilson taking over marketing responsibilities.

Bokaie left, along with a number of other personnel involved in producing Director magazine, to set up a new, as yet unnamed, publishing company.