Global Radio has appointed Dalton Leong as its managing director of global charities.

Leong will take up the role come summer and will be responsible for the portfolio of charities including 95.8 Capital FM’s Help a London Child and Heart’s Have a Heart.

Leong first joined the voluntary sector in 2002 as director of operations and marketing for the Shooting Star Children’s Hospice. He was promoted to chief executive in 2005.

Prior to this, Leong’s career spanned the financial services and banking sector.