Simon Beresford-Wylie (pictured) is to become CEO of Imagination.

Beresford-Wylie was previously Chief Executive of Arqiva, a provider of communications, broadcast and media services.

Prior to Arqiva he was Global Executive Advisor and Executive Vice President to the Networks Business Unit of Samsung Electronics.

Beresford-Wylie has also been founding CEO of Nokia Siemens Networks, and a member of the Group Executive Board of Nokia Corporation (2005 – 2009). He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Vitec Group (2006 – 2013).

During his five-year tenure as CEO of Arqiva, Simon significantly improved the Company’s financial performance, employee engagement and customer satisfaction. He departed in July 2020 having completed the sale of Arqiva’s telecoms division for £2bn.

Beresford-Wylie replaces interim CEO, Ray Bingham, who remains Imagination’s Executive Chairman.

“His appointment demonstrates Canyon Bridge’s commitment to enabling Imagination to hire the best talent across its leadership, technical, commercial, and support teams, to create new technology, and to gain, serve, and retain customers worldwide’” says Bingham.

“Imagination is an exciting and important company built with the best of British and International talent,” says Beresford-Wylie, “the current team has put in place an ambitious strategy, which has shown impressive revenue growth even in the very testing current business environment.”