The Insolvency Service has now recruited the former DEFRA divisional chief executive as its new their new CEO.
Richard Judge succeeds Stephen Speed who has been CEO of the Insolvency Service for more than four years. Mr Speed is now going to become the director of the Energy Development unit at the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
Richard Judge has been the CEO of an agency within the DEFRA (Department for Environmental Food and Rural Affairs) since 2007, prior to that he has worked in the nuclear, rail and environmental sectors in the UK, having no previous experience in the insolvency sector. Judge is set to start at the Insolvency Service around the end of July.
