John was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board on 5 July 2022, following the resignation of the previous Non-Executive Chairman. He brings significant executive and non-executive Board-level experience of both fully-listed and AIM-quoted businesses. John is also Non-Executive Chairman of Dotdigital, the marketing automation platform company listed on AIM. John began his career in the IT industry with IBM in 1983, and worked in a range of industries in technical, sales, and marketing roles. Since then, John has held general management and director-level roles in small and medium-sized private and public companies. Recent public company roles include Chief Executive Officer of Psion PLC, the fully-listed international mobile device company, from April 2008 to October 2012 when it was sold to Motorola; and Non-Executive Director of NetDimensions (Holdings) Limited, the AIM-quoted human capital management software company, from October 2016 to April 2017 when it was sold to Learning Technologies plc. He was Non-Executive Director of recruitment company Parity PLC from 2017 until 2021. John was also Executive and then Non-Executive Chairman of Wameja Limited, the AIM and ASX quoted innovative mobile financial services company, and related to that role John served as a Non-Executive Director of HomeSend SCRL, the company jointly owned by Wameja Limited and Mastercard until its sale to Motorola concluded in 2021.