BOC: Gloria Stuart, group director of legal, left BOC in December after 10 years with the company. A spokesperson said: “After a number of years she has decided to spend more time with her family. We are going on as before and will recruit as quickly as possible.”

British American Tobacco (BAT): Company secretary Phillip Cook has left BAT to join F I Group – the business technology services supplier – as general counsel and company secretary. Aileen McDonald who joined BAT in 1994 replaces him.