Intercede appoints Klaas van der Leest as CEO

AIM-listed cybersecurity company Intercede has appointed Klaas van der Leest as its chief executive with immediate effect.

Van der Leest has worked for a number of large and small, quoted and privately owned organisations including CA Technologies, Intelecom UK, Amulet Hotkey, Global Crossing, Attenda and Logica.

He has proven expertise in the development and execution of national and international sales growth, 'go to market' initiatives and customer focused expansion strategies.

Non-executive chairman Chuck Pol said: "We are delighted to secure Klaas as Intercede's new chief executive. He has an outstanding track record in driving sales, service delivery and operations across Cloud, SaaS, managed services, IT services and software businesses."

At 1300 BST, the shares were down 3.7% to 26p.