Nasstar announced that Peter Daresbury, has notified the Company of his intention to step down from the board after 12 years as Chairman. Peter's decision will become effective on 23 October 2019 at which point Nick Bate will become Group chairman. Nick joined the Board as a non-executive director in January 2014 so brings a great deal of experience to the Chairman role, both from his time with Nasstar as well as from his roles with a number of private technology companies. The Board announced that Ben Marnham has agreed to join the board as a non-executive director with effect from 23 October 2019. Ben is an adviser and investor in high growth businesses. At Solar Communications, where he served as Chairman between 2014 and 2017, he was part of the team that restructured the business which exited successfully to Wavenet in 2018.