BM TRADA Certification Ltd has promoted Tobin Gordon to principal client manager, providing technical support for BM TRADA’s Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes (PEFC) and generic forest products chain of custody certification schemes.

With more than 12 years’ experience in the timber and forest products industries, Mr Gordon has worked with other FSC- and PEFC-accredited certification bodies, and with private sector timber merchants, helping them develop chain of custody certification programmes.

He joined BM TRADA in 2005 and has audited a number of other industry sector schemes in addition to chain of custody.