North Highland promotes Charles Vivian to Market Lead

North Highland has promoted Charles Vivian to the role of Market Lead in London. Incumbent Tony Doocey ascends to the role of Global Media, Entertainment & Communications Lead.

Over the past five years Vivian served as the President of North Highland's Managed Services Division. Under his leadership the unit booked strong growth, nearly doubling in size. Previously he was responsible for defining all market facing services in the UK and led North Highland's inorganic growth initiative, incubating 2 new ventures.

Vivian joined North Highland in 2010 from Zogix, a provider of sustainability solutions, a company which he co-founded in 2006. Concurrently, between 2007 and 2009, he was an Associate at Moorhouse Consulting. Vivian started his career at Weatherall Green and Smith (now Atis Real) as a Surveyor, and later on worked nine years for Deloitte in the firm's Strategy & Operations, Telecommunication Media and Technology and Public Sector Practices.

Vivian holds a Bachelor of Science in Land Management, Commercial property development, investment and management from Université de Caen Normandie and a Diploma in Economics and Business French.

North Highland recently announced that Vivian has been promoted to the role of London Market Lead – displacing incumbent Tony Doocey who takes on the role of North Highland’s Global Media, Entertainment & Communications Lead. The promotion reflects Vivian’s strong performance within his previous roles at the consultancy, says the firm.

Albert Rees, President, North America and the UK, North Highland says: “We’re excited to announce the appointment of Charles to London Market Lead. He is an experienced leader and entrepreneur who brings energy, vision and operational expertise to build on the excellent work done by Tony, who has played an integral part in developing the offer and client base of our London practice. Charles will be driving a growth agenda, focused on helping our clients meet the rapid, disruptive and customer centric challenges and opportunities of today’s business world.”

Vivian comments: “With so much opportunity in London, it’s a very exciting time for me to be taking the reins. My ambition is to deepen our client portfolio in the UK, using collaboration and innovation to drive growth and harness our special North Highland culture.”