Directorate Change

RNS Number : 2024L

WANdisco Plc

29 September 2016

 

RNS

29 September 2016

WANdisco plc

("WANdisco" or the "Company")

Directorate Change

The Board of WANdisco (LSE: WAND) today announces that David Richards, Chief Executive Officer, will be stepping down from the Board and his role as CEO of the Company with immediate effect. A search for his replacement has commenced. In the interim period, Paul Walker, Non-Executive Chairman, has assumed the role of Executive Chairman with immediate effect.

The Board can confirm that WANdisco continues to trade in line with the expectations referenced at the time of the Company's Interim Results in August. There is a good pipeline of bookings and cash costs continue to decline, which combined with the new equity funding secured in June have enabled WANdisco to remain on a path toward cash flow break-even.

Paul Walker, Non-Executive Chairman of WANdisco commented:

"Having co-founded WANdisco in 2005, David has been instrumental to the Company's progress to date.  We have a strong product, perfectly adapted to meet today's Big Data challenges and we are able to take that product to customers globally, using the international software business David has helped to build as a platform. On behalf of the Board I would like to thank David for his contribution over the years and wish him well for the future."

David Richards, Non-Executive Chairman of WANdisco commented:

"WANdisco has been my focus since 2005.  The business is now at an appropriate juncture, place and scale for a new person to take on the CEO role and drive the Company to its next level of achievement.  I wish all of the WANdisco team well as they push forward with the exciting opportunity ahead."

For further information please contact:

WANdisco plc	via FTI Consulting
Paul Walker, Executive Chairman
FTI Consulting	[phone]
Matt Dixon / Dwight Burden / Rob Mindell
Investec (Joint Broker and NOMAD)	[phone]
Christopher Baird / Dominic Emery
UBS (Joint Broker) Rahul Luthra / Sandip Dhillon	[phone]

About WANdisco plc

WANdisco (LSE: WAND) is a provider of enterprise-ready, non-stop software solutions that enable globally distributed organizations to meet today's data challenges of secure storage, scalability and continuous availability. WANdisco's products are differentiated by the company's patented, active data replication technology, serving crucial continuous availability requirements, including Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), including Apache Subversion and Git. Fortune Global 1000 companies, including Juniper Networks, Motorola, Intel and Halliburton, rely on WANdisco for performance, reliability, security and availability. For additional information, please visit www.wandisco.com.

 

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