Complex sentence: On September 23,2010 Mark Owings became the Publisher of the Herald; he had been Finance Director since 2004 and a Herald employee for 12 years before being named to his new position.
Split into simpler sentences: On September 23,2010 Mark Owings was named the new Publisher of the Herald. Owings had been Finance Director since 2004 and a Herald employee for 12 years before being named to his new position.