The authorities is to begin the hunt for a model new boss of its flagship commerce and cultural promotion advertising marketing campaign after the incumbent decided to step down after two years in value.
Sky Information understands that Andy Pike OBE resigned as director of GREAT earlier this month, and may go away the put up in September.
Mr Pike educated the members of the GREAT advertising marketing campaign’s private sector council – chaired by the earlier Fortnum & Mason boss Ewan Venters – in a memo throughout which he outlined proposals for the perform to be open to private sector candidates.
He moreover referred to “unprecedented help, together with…from the prime minister personally” for the initiative.
Final month, GREAT took the promotion of Britain’s know-how sector to the heart of Silicon Valley with a promoting and advertising effort referred to as ‘Unicorn Kingdom’ – a reference to the number of UK-based start-ups which have attained a valuation of $1bn or additional.
Mr Pike has had earlier stints answerable for GREAT, and likewise labored in senior communications on the Northern Eire Workplace and contained in the intelligence corporations.
In 2021, he modified Dan Ramsay, who resigned to affix the broadband infrastructure group CityFibre Holdings, on the helm of the GREAT advertising marketing campaign.
His departure will come amid ongoing debate regarding the effectiveness of Britain’s commerce promotion efforts, with worldwide commerce now having not too way back been merged with the Division for Enterprise.
Sky Information revealed remaining week that the federal authorities’s International Funding Summit might be delayed by quite a lot of weeks from its distinctive October scheduling.
Mr Pike couldn’t be reached for comment.
Supply: info.sky.com”