accesso Technology Group plc announced that Executive Chairman, Tom Burnet, will move to a Non-Executive Director role at the Group with effect from 1 March 2019. The Group also announced that Bill Russell has been appointed as the Group's new Non-Executive Chairman, effective concurrently with Tom Burnet's move to the Non-Executive Director position. Bill Russell has served in a variety of roles in both public and private technology company boards, in a career spanning several decades, including 23 years across a number of senior management roles at Hewlett Packard, including Vice President and General Manager of Hewlett Packard's multi-billion-dollar Enterprise Systems Group and its Software Solutions Group. Bill is currently Non-Executive Chairman at leading technology solutions provider Piksel Group and PROS Holdings, a provider of AI-powered solutions that optimize selling in the digital economy, and previously held roles at SABA Software Inc., webMethods and Cognos.