CyanConnode Holdings Plc announced the appointment of Harry Berry as chief operating officer (COO) and an additional board role change. This appointment as COO will mean that Harry will move from a non-executive to executive director capacity and will be effective immediately. Harry's near term priority as COO will be to convert the £21 million order book (representing purchase orders received from customers but not yet delivered) into successful customer deployment projects, which will result in significant revenue growth for the Company.

In addition to the above Board change, Simon Smith, Chief Financial Officer, will return to a Non-Executive Director role. Simon joined the Company in 2010 originally as a Non-Executive Director and moved into an executive role of Chief Financial Officer in October 2013. In his resumed Non-Executive Director role, Simon will continue to also have responsibility for the investor relations of the company, and will take over as Chair of the Audit Committee.

This change will be effective September 1, 2017. The company also announced that it has appointed David Bland as full time Finance Director, taking over the day to day finance activities from Simon. This new role, based in the company's head office in Cambridge on a permanent basis, will bolster the finance function and ensure the company has the resources in place to support the commercial and delivery teams as the company moves into this new phase of significant growth.

David will work closely with the Board, particularly with Simon Smith. However, David will not sit on the board of company.