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Birmingham Post
Business
Jon Robinson

Senior hire for marketing firm co-founded by Dragons' Den star Steven Bartlett

A senior hire has been made by Flight Story, the marketing agency co-founded by Dragons' Den star Steven Bartlett.

Former Dentsu International executive Andy Leck has been appointed as the company's new chief financial officer.

Prior to joining Flight Story, Mr Leck was financial director of the IT transformation programme at WPP, working across areas of media, advertising and market research.

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More recently, he was a CFO at Dentsu International, where he supported the establishment of shared services for operations, technology, finance and HR in complex global organisations, including negotiating significant global contracts with Microsoft, AWS, Google, Adobe and Salesforce.

He said: "I've spent the last 20 years working in large, complex, multinational companies where I've been fortunate to be involved in many 'internal startups', either through major acquisitions, restructuring or new business wins.

"I am driven by the challenge of re-defining the norm, forming/bringing order out of chaos and being part of something from the start, that you can see flourish and develop.

"My two requisites are a talented, hard-working management team combined with great, executable ideas, so when Steven and Oliver approached me about a role at Flight Story, how could I resist?"

Mr Yonchev added: "It’s a true honour to have Andy join the group, his experience, character and leadership is second to none."

Mr Bartlett said: "Flight Story is aiming to modernise investor relations and develop a unique communication solution. With industry-disrupting ambitions, we need a world-class leadership team. Andy is everything we wanted and more."

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