Spirent Communications plc announced that Eric Updyke has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer. His employment will start on April 1, 2019 and he will be appointed as a director of the Company and take up the CEO position following the AGM on 1 May 2019. Eric Updyke's appointment follows company's announcement in November 2018 that Eric Hutchinson wished to retire after 37 years of employment with the Group, most recently as Chief Executive Officer, following his appointment to that role in 2013.

He will step down from the Board after the AGM on 1 May 2019. Eric Updyke has extensive experience in international business management with a strong technical understanding of the markets in which Spirent operates. He has worked in various sections of the industry over the last 30 years and has led transformative growth programmes on a global scale.