Appreciate Group announced the appointment to the Board of Julian Coghlan as Interim Chief Executive Officer (Interim CEO) reporting to the Executive Chairman, Guy Parsons. Julian is the Group's current Chief Commercial Officer, having joined the business in August 2017, initially as Group Operations Director. Prior to this, he held senior executive roles in commercial functions at Adare Group, the customer communications services group, for 14 years.

He is also a regional councillor of the CBI. As Interim CEO, Julian will be responsible for all the Group's day to day commercial, operational, IT and HR functions across the business (including sales and marketing), with a focus on driving revenues in line with the Group's financial targets. Guy Parsons, as Executive Chairman, will retain direct responsibility for the Group Finance, Legal & Compliance teams as well as strategic and governance matters.