Galliford Try appoints new chief executive and finance director

Galliford Try has appointed Graham Prothero as its new chief executive.

Prothero (pictured) has been Galliford Try’s finance director since 2013 and takes up his new post immediately. Andrew Duxbury – finance director at Galliford Try’s housebuilding division, Linden Homes, succeeds Prothero as group finance director.

Prothero succeeds Peter Truscott who is leaving the business and joins Crest Nicholson in September 2019 after his contract with Galliford Try expires.

Prothero’s earlier posts include finance director at Development Securities and a partner at Ernst & Young.