Zenova Group Plc announced changes to the board and executive management team aimed at increasing the capacity of the management team to enable them to effectively pursue and close new business opportunities generated by the sales team. Tony Crawley, Chief Executive Officer, will step down from the Board and will be assuming the role of Sales Project Director, with immediate effect. Also with immediate effect, Thomas Melchior (the current CFO) is hereby appointed as interim Chief Executive Officer.

Thomas has a proven track record in business strategy, expansion, change and turnaround situations with a focus on global technology-driven, customer-focused businesses. The company has appointed Farakh Faridto the non-Board role of Chief Financial Officer. Farakh is an experienced Chartered Certified Accountant with Big-4 and international asset management, ed-tech, telecoms, fintech, real estate, construction and manufacturing experience.

Don Nicolson has chaired the Board of Directors since the company was admitted to AIM in July 2021 and is now reverting back to the role of Non-Executive Chairman having, in his former executive capacity, aligned the senior management team to steer the company towards its next phase of revenue generation and growth. In addition, Fiona Rodford will take up the role of Executive Vice-Chairperson, effective immediately. Fiona has had a career spanning large global businesses both FTSE and private focusing on people and change at Executive Board level.

She has extensive transformation and M&A experience both leading and being part of complex transactions. She is currently the Deputy Chair of Pilotlight.