Webster takes a top role at AAM

As well as overseeing 1.9 billion of assets she will work on strategic development of the business within Aberdeen.

Webster has previously worked at Scottish Equitable and Aegon where she qualified as an actuary in 1998. More recently she was responsible for product development and distribution strategy at Aegon Asset Management, where she was also a director of the firm's offshore funds business.

Meanwhile, Barclays Wealth has poached Calum Brewster from Lloyds Banking Group, making him a director in its wealth management and private banking business in Glasgow. He will head a team of ten private bankers when he takes on the role later this month. Brewster's move to Barclays follows a 21-year career in financial services, most recently as head of customer experience and strategy at Lloyds' life pensions and investment division. Prior to that he held several senior roles at Scottish Widows, and also worked for Clydesdale Bank.

He said: "Barclays Wealth has a strong vision for its future and a passionate commitment to Scotland which I am keen to be part of."

Edinburgh private equity specialist Hazel Cameron has been headhunted - by a headhunting firm. Hitchenor Wakeford has recruited her to advise its board as it prepares for further expansion.

Cameron's experience includes heading the British operation of US technology venture capital company Cross Atlantic Capital Partners. Having sat on a number of boards as non-executive director, she now helps shape boards for LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group.

Common Data Access, the UK oil and gas industry's shared data management service with offices in Aberdeen and London, has appointed four new members to its board. George Rorie of Shell Upstream International; Roy Rees-Williams of Nexen Petroleum; Anne Hegarty from Statoil ASA; and Jeremy Lockett from Centrica; will all lend their skills to the non-profit organisation.