Lloyd James Appoints Jeremy Whitaker to Drive Growth Plans

Lloyd James, Chairman, is delighted to be able to confirm that Jeremy Whitaker, who has an unrivalled track record of achieving transformational shareholder value gains within marketing services businesses (notably DLG, Brann Worldwide and ICD), has joined the Lloyd James Group as non-executive director.

Jeremy will be focused on helping the directors develop and drive the company's ambitious growth plans; harnessing the existing exceptional client services reputation and heritage to further enhance their position as the UK's largest independent data procurement and data services provider.

In addition to its own organic growth plans, Lloyd James will be acquiring a number of complimentary list brokers, list managers and data services businesses and will be launching an umbrella network to small practitioners looking to harness the company's superior back office systems, data buying power and Compliance capabilities.

Lloyd James said: "Jeremy has been a trustworthy confidante for many years and I am delighted that he has now been able to join our board. His experience and expertise have already started to positively impact the shape of our future growth plans and I am truly excited about his appointment".

Jeremy Whitaker said: "Lloyd and his team have a really exciting business model, able to offer scaled data procurement outsourcing in a growing market where large organisations are increasingly looking for quality professional advice and services in securing sustainable third party data sources and services. The dynamic growth strategy is truly revolutionary and undoubtedly heralds an exciting development in this space".