{"id":60368,"date":"2020-11-09T14:06:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T14:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.idealnetworks.net\/?p=60368"},"modified":"2021-03-15T15:58:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T15:58:27","slug":"companyname-appoints-new-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trend-networks.com\/us\/companyname-appoints-new-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"TREND Networks Appoints New Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Neil Gaydon has been appointed Chairman of TREND Networks, the global provider of innovative, simple to use cloud connected copper and fiber network test equipment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Neil joins TREND Networks with 40 years\u2019 experience in the technology sector and Board-level leadership. He has previously held notable roles at UK company Pace plc, leading it to become the global number one in its sector with revenues of $2.3 billion, and SMART Technologies Inc., which was reinvented with a new vision, strategy and value proposition, ultimately leading to its acquisition by Foxconn Technology Group.<\/p>\n<p>He attended Harvard Business School and has been the recipient of numerous business awards during his time spent living and working in the UK and North America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTREND Networks is committed to continued innovation and transforming the way that our global customers work with exceptional solutions and products,\u201d says Paul Walsh, CEO of TREND Networks. \u201cWe know that Neil\u2019s passion and expertise will support this, and our whole team is delighted to welcome him as our Chairman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am delighted to be joining TREND Networks at a time of expansion where my experience can support the management team\u2019s exciting vision for the company,\u201d says Neil Gaydon, who is also Chairman of two Private Equity owned companies, Adare International and Adare SEC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeil has a reputation for working strategically with management teams to create great companies with strong financial performance, that teams are proud to be part of. We are confident that he will be a great asset to TREND Networks,\u201d says Matthew Hutchinson, Partner at CBPE Capital LLP (\u201cCBPE\u201d), which acquired a majority ownership position in TREND Networks in December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trend-networks.com\/\">www.trend-networks.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Gaydon has been appointed Chairman of , the global provider of innovative, simple to&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_glsr_average":0,"_glsr_ranking":0,"_glsr_reviews":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1463,1457],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-60368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-coverage-us","category-news-us"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trend-networks.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trend-networks.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trend-networks.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trend-networks.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trend-networks.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trend-networks.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trend-networks.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trend-networks.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trend-networks.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60368"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trend-networks.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=60368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}