Innkeeper Supplies has appointed Julian Stratton as commercial director. He joins Innkeeper after more than 25 years with Gaskell & Chambers, 14 of them as the firm's managing director. Stratton remained as managing director of Gaskell & Chambers until 2002 when it ceased trading as a separate entity and became absorbed within IMI Cornelius. He then took up other senior commercial roles within IMI before leaving the business in 2009 to set up his own consultancy.