ALD Automotive, the UK vehicle leasing and fleet management provider, has appointed Mel Dawson as its new managing director.

He will report into to ALD International’s deputy CEO, Tim Albertsen, based in Paris.

Dawson joined ALD in 1997 as commercial director before being appointed sales director in 2005.

His promotion follows a period of three years, in which ALD’s fleet size has grown organically by over 35,000 vehicles, much of it as a result of ALD’s TCO consultancy service and ProFleet2 telematics offering.