Nektan plc announced that Leigh Nissim has resigned as Chief Executive Officer to take up a new role, starting in September 2017. Leigh will remain with the business until August 2017 to ensure an orderly handover. The Board has started the search for a permanent replacement and, in the interim, Gary Shaw, founder and former Chief Executive of the Company, will assume the role of Interim Chief Executive Officer. During his time as Chief Executive Officer, Leigh has made a valuable contribution to the business, helped to build a strong leadership team and has successfully focused the strategy on transitioning the Company to an international gaming solutions and services provider from a white label operator. The Group is continuing to make good progress in its three principal business areas which are powered by its proprietary technology platform, Evolve: Managed Solutions (Europe), B2B Software & Games Licensing (Europe) and In Venue Gaming (North America).