Live Company Group plc announced the conditional acquisition of Bright Bricks Holdings Limited for a total consideration of £8.5 million. Simon Horgan, Executive Chairman of Bright Bricks, will join the Board of LVCG on 1 November 2018. In addition to the appointment of Simon Horgan on 1 November 2018, the Company also announced the appointments of Trudy Norris-Grey, as independent Non-Executive Director, also with effect from 1 November 2018, and Bryan Lawrie, as Chief Financial Officer, with effect from First Admission on 8 October 2018.

Following completion of the Acquisition, Andy Smith will take on a new board role as Chief Strategic Officer, to oversee the integration of the two businesses and the enlarged Group's future strategy. In his new role, Andy is expected to be working 2.5 days per week. Simon was the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre during which time he acquired London's exhibition venue, Excel, for the Abu Dhabi government.

Prior to this he was Chief Strategy Consultant for Informa plc. Trudy is currently based in Seattle working for Microsoft as the Managing Director of Business Development and Smart Cities. Prior to this she held senior roles at BT Group plc, as CEO of Infonet, and Sun Microsystems, and Oracle.

Bryan has been acting as interim CFO since June 2018. He is an FCCA and started his career in the London office of PKF, heading up the business support service team. Following a period of providing CFO services on a portfolio basis, he founded CFO Partners in 2015, working with CEOs and other Board directors advising on both business and financial strategic matters.

In addition, the Company is seeking to appoint two further non-executive Directors, at least one of whom would add public company experience to the Board.