Avacta Group plc announced that at the annual general meeting held on January 24, 2014. Following the annual general meeting, Gwyn Humphreys stood down as Chairman of the company and Tony Robards stood down from the board with immediate effect. Trevor Nicholls, who joined the board as a Non-Executive Director in September 2013, will take over as Chairman and Mr. Humphreys remains on the board as a Non-executive Director.

Trevor has considerable senior-level commercial experience including as Chief Commercial Officer and Executive Vice President of Affymetrix. His experience of commercialising products in the life sciences sector will be of great benefit to Avacta as it grows over the coming few years.