Privately financed APN Group has today announced the appointment of Harry Clarke as chairman of the board. The appointment took effect from 1st November and continues the process of building-out the leadership team.

Patrick Isaacs, chief executive of Capital and Trust, and lead investor, said: “The investors are delighted to appoint Harry to this role. As the original founder of RingGo, the market-leading parking app, he brings a rare understanding of every step required to grow a UK-based technology company from modest beginnings to market dominance.”

Patrick Isaacs continued: “The APN group will be trusted to collect, process and account for monies owed to others - we therefore required an individual of integrity and probity as Chairman and we are genuinely delighted he has chosen to take the role”.

Harry Clarke confirmed his enthusiasm: “I have spent over 20 years bringing efficiency, quality and process improvement to local government revenue collection processes. I firmly believe that the wider debt recovery sector and its customers deserve to benefit from technological advancement. This approach can make for much more effective as well as fairer, appropriately targeted recovery of unpaid monies.”

Non-executive Harry joins the board in support of executive directors Tom Clough in the role of Group General Counsel & Company Secretary and Eddie Harrison as Chief Operating Officer. Tom and Eddie previously worked together at Lowell Group, one of Europe’s largest acquirers of non-performing loan book portfolios, and the largest user of the county court system in England.

Harry Clarke continued: “Tom and Eddie are high-calibre individuals with unrivalled expertise in debt recovery, litigation and customer-oriented collections. I am excited to support them in harnessing the power of technology, including through acquisition and partnership, to deliver APN Group’s unique proposition”.

NOTES TO EDITORS

Harry Clarke

Harry’s first degree is in engineering, he served as an officer in the Royal Engineers and holds an MBA from Cranfield Business School. He has subsequently received several awards from Cranfield including a service award and Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011. Relentless and creative of spirit, he is best known as the founder of RingGo the phone parking app now used by over 18m motorists.

His career has been spent in the telecommunications and technology sectors. He has enjoyed a succession of national and international executive business development and leadership positions which have given way, more latterly, to advisory and interim roles.

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