Zenith has announced the appointment of three new employees - Martin Rogers, David Raponi and Rebecca Priest - who have joined the company’s business development and customer relationship teams.

Zenith’s new relationship director Martin Rogers has enjoyed a successful career in the leasing and fleet management industry spanning more than 20 years.

He was previously responsible for many of Lombard Vehicle Management’s key relationships and brings a significant amount of knowledge and experience to the team.

His new role will be to sustain and develop the customer relationships with several of Zenith’s large partners, with fleet sizes ranging from 1,500 to 4,000 cars and commercial vehicles.

Also new to the team is David Raponi who joins as a business development manager to help Zenith continue to accelerate the growth of the business and further the company’s organic growth ambitions. 

He previously worked at Arval and has 12 years’ sales and business development experience within the fleet sector, assisting in the identification and acquisition of many new business opportunities.

A further recent new appointment is Rebecca Priest, Zenith’s sales support manager, responsible for managing the growing sales support team, consisting of strategic proposal writers, commercial pricing executives and consultancy experts.

Priest has moved from Engage Mutual Assurance and has more than10 years of business support experience.

Tim Buchan, Zenith’s chief executive officer, said:  “We are really pleased to be able to attract such highly experienced individuals in to our growing team.”