Essential Fleet Services has appointed Greg Taylor as its new commercial director.

Taylor joins the company in June from ALD Automotive, where he was operations director.

He has nearly 20 years’ experience within the contract hire and leasing industry and first joined Leaseplan as financial planning and analysis manager in 1997, before moving to the role of head of sales.

Taylor then joined ING Car Lease as commercial director, and has spent the last three years on the board of ALD.

“I am joining the leadership team at Essential in an exciting stage in the company’s development,” he said.

“The ambitions of the stakeholders, coupled with the opportunity to create a market leading operation focused on customer service excellence, are extremely compelling”.