Centaur Media Plc announced that Simon Longfield has been appointed as chief financial officer in succession to Swag Mukerji, who was promoted to chief executive in September 2019. Simon will take up the role and join the Board on 6 November 2019. Simon has spent the past 10 years as CFO of BMI Research, a leading provider of macroeconomic, industry and financial market analysis, which was acquired by Fitch Group in 2014.

During his time at BMI Research, revenues more than doubled as the company expanded internationally with Simon's support. Prior to this, Simon was CFO of Newfound. Simon began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he qualified as a chartered accountant and spent time in London and Australia.