Gamma Communications plc announced that Martin Hellawell will be appointed as Chair and Non-Executive Director of the Board with effect from 1 July 2023. He will replace Richard Last, who will step down from the Board also on 1 July 2023 having served as Chair for nine years. This is in line with company's previous announcements on succession planning for Richard.

Martin Hellawell will join Gamma following a long and highly successful career in the IT industry. He is currently Non-Executive Chair of Softcat plc, a position from which he will step down on 31 July 2023, as previously announced by Softcat. He is also Non-Executive Chair of Raspberry Pi Limited, Non-Executive Chair of AIM listed musicMagpie plc, and a Non-Executive Director of AIM listed Team17 plc.

In his most recent executive role, Martin was Chief Executive of Softcat from 2006 through to 2018 during which time the company enjoyed a successful flotation on the London Stock Exchange in 2015 after many years of successive growth. Prior to Softcat, Martin spent over a decade at Computacenter plc and its associated companies where he was responsible for the marketing function, ran Computacenter's French subsidiary and led acquisitions in the United Kingdom, Belgium and Germany.