OFT appoints chief operating officer

The Office of Fair Trading has appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Bart Smith as its first chief operating officer.

Mr Smith, currently director of performance improvement consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers, will head the OFT’s resources and services teams, bringing together the management of finance, human resources and business infrastructure.

The establishment of the post of COO is part of a reorganisation of the OFT’s management of resources and support services.

He takes up his post on April 11.