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New CEO for Textic

Textic announces the appointment of Paul Ayres as Chief Executive with the brief of accelerating the company's growth and development.

Paul has worked in the technology sector for the past twenty years, specialising in start-up operations. His background is in sales and marketing and in 1995, Paul was appointed General Manager and Managing Director of Netscape Communications in Northern Europe where he built the fastest growing and most profitable business unit in the Company.

In 1997, Paul was recruited to establish RealNetworks in Europe, he established a highly successful organisation across Europe. More recently, Paul was the President and CEO of Authoriszor Inc, a NASDAQ listed Internet security vendor where he was responsible for the commercial turnaround of the business from a $20 million loss to a profitable performance within 18 months. He ran dyslexia focused start up BrightStar in the UK and established the Company’s profitable trading platform, while most recently, Paul was appointed as interim CEO of AIM listed Creative Education Corporation plc.

Paul will work alongside Jeremy Coulter, co-founder of Textic and currently Chief Operating Officer and Phil Teare, Chief Technical Officer.

Jeremy and Paul's paths first crossed some ten years ago when the latter was running Netscape in the UK. Jeremy recalls: "I remember seeing Paul at London's Planet Hollwood at the launch of Netscape in the UK. He was hosting the event alongside the legendary Jim H Clark, founder of Netscape, at a huge press gathering. That was an integral part of the whole initial explosion of the Internet and he did great things first at Netscape and then at Real Networks... It's great to have him here at Textic."