Johns Lyng Group says Nick Carnell has joined its board as an executive director.

He is executive GM overseeing group-wide operations, having joined Johns Lyng in 2014 to manage the Insurance Building division. He has held a number of senior management roles.

Chairman Peter Nash says Mr Carnell “has gained a great breadth of experience across the group’s operational divisions, and he’s been at the forefront of our market-leading catastrophe response capacity in recent years”.

The board now has five non-executive directors and five executive directors.