Gooch & Housego PLC announced that Mark Webster will be retiring at the end of this financial year and stepping down from his role as CEO of G&H. The Board announced that he will be succeeded as CEO of G&H by Charlie Peppiatt, with effect from 14 September 2022, who until recently was Executive Vice President at TT Electronics PLC, which he joined after they acquired Stadium Group PLC in 2018 where he was CEO. Charlie brings a wealth of experience from his career in global hi-tech businesses supplying into the medical, industrial, aerospace and defence sectors, not only from his time in these roles but also prior to that at Laird PLC, where his roles included VP Global Operations for Laird Technologies based in China, General Manager for Amesbury Group based in USA and Managing Director with Laird Security Systems in the UK.