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Star’s Lewis Brown shortlisted for Director of the Year

UK: Star Refrigeration contracts director Lewis Brown has been shortlisted for the Scottish Institute of Directors (IoD) 2020 Director Of The Year Awards.

Brown, who joined Glasgow-based Star Refrigeration in 2014 as technical sales engineer, has been nominated in the Young Directors category. 

Contracts director since 2018, Brown said: “I was delighted to have been nominated for the Young Director of the Year Award, but then to find out I’d been shortlisted was a real honour.”

The IoD Scotland Director of the Year Awards programme has grown over the past 16 years to represent the pinnacle of leadership and business excellence, highlighting the significant contribution business leaders can make to society and the economic prosperity in Scotland.  

The winners will be announced at an online virtual awards ceremony on September 8.

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