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Appointment of new CEO [return]

Les Gaw, formerly Chief Operating Officer, takes over the role with immediate effect.

Les Gaw was appointed Chief Executive of Essential Viewing in May 2008. Prior to this Les spent 2 years as Chief Operating Officer of Essential Viewing focused on developing the sales and marketing of the business and was responsible for developing the key partner relationships the business now has.
Prior to joining Essential Viewing Les spent 5 years as the Operations Director of a venture capital backed financial services company. During this time the company grew revenues over 700% and moved into profitability by a combination of organic growth and acquisition. Before this Les spent 4 years with a computer services company in a consultancy role managing the implementation of ERP and Financial software systems in a variety of different organisations within different industry sectors.
Les began his career at British Steel plc as a graduate trainee and spent 6 years working in various departments before heading up the IT Department of the Seamless Tubes business in Scotland. Les graduated from the University of Strathclyde with an Honours Degree in Information Engineering in 1990.

Posted on 11 July, 2008