{"id":6238,"date":"2026-05-13T19:15:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=6238"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:15:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:15:40","slug":"decoms-new-chair-to-seek-out-fresh-opportunities-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=6238","title":{"rendered":"Decom&#8217;s new chair to seek out fresh opportunities \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>Head of business development Michael O\u2019Neill, Keith McDermott and head of engineering Calum Dey<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Decom Engineering has appointed high growth specialist and investor Keith McDermott as chairman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He will help the Aberdeen-based cutting business ramp up growth across the offshore, industrial and energy transition sectors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mr McDermott has invested in and exited a number of businesses across a spectrum of sectors and currently works as a non-executive director with a portfolio of companies from engineering to health and fitness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Previously he was commercial director and a shareholder in Ecosse Subsea Systems, helping grow the business over a number of years prior to its eventual \u00a350 million sale in 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Commenting on his new role at Decom, he said: \u201cThe business is thriving on the back of a number of innovative engineering product developments and contract awards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He said he would help Decom push into new markets in the energy decommissioning and infrastructure sectors and exploit fresh opportunities in other areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Managing director, Nick McNally, said: \u201cWe have worked closely with Keith for some years and have greatly benefited from his experience of helping grow small businesses from start-up, through market entry and on to high performance entities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cHis counsel and proven ability to identify commercial opportunities while solving impediments to growth, will be invaluable in the future as we look to scale our patented cutting tools and associated technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #Decoms #chair #seek #fresh #opportunities #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of business development Michael O\u2019Neill, Keith McDermott and head of engineering Calum Dey Decom&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[272,3116,306,11943,11945,2380,11944,4015,1127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}