# BEN appoints new Chief Executive

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/10/21/ben-appoints-new-chief-executive/
- Published: 2008-10-21T16:00:18+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

David Main has been appointed as the Chief Executive at BEN, the automotive industry
charity. He is currently Chief Executive of the Civil Service Benevolent Fund and
will take over from Christopher Macgowan, who is acting as Interim Chief Executive,
on 26 January 2009.

Main qualified as an accountant before joining the BOC Group where he headed up 
the UK healthcare operation. In 1997 he was appointed the first non-lawyer Chief
Executive of a regional law firm before joining the Civil Service Benevolent Fund,
his first move into the charity sector.

www.ben.org.uk

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