# New CEO for Samaritans

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/12/22/new-ceo-samaritans/
- Published: 2006-12-22T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Dominic Rudd has been appointed the new Chief Executive with Samaritans and will
join the charity on 19 March 2007.**

Rudd joins Samaritans from the RSPCA where he is Operations Director. During his
seven years with the animal charity he has helped to oversee several restructuring
and development projects. He will succeed David King, the current Samaritans CEO.

Samaritans has just been voted Britain’s third most admired charity by Third Sector
magazine readers. In 2005 its 17,000 volunteers received almost 5 million contacts
by phone, email, text, letter, face-to-face at one of the charity’s 202 branches
and at festivals.

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Before the RSPCA, Dominic Rudd spent 12 years as an officer in the Royal Marines
and then moved to a business supplying natural stone flooring and paving to conservation
projects and private developments. He took up the post of RSPCA regional manager
in Wales, responsible for the charity’s operations in the Principality, in 1999.