Day1

Today, “Day1”. First news start to go live. Here, here and here. Shares have been suspended on the LSE. Go live should be announced in 4 hours from now.

Close to the deal

Everything is now ready for Day 1. All communications assets ready to go live. Two more days and the deal will be disclosed. I am now definitely dedicating most of my time to the deal comms plan. I still cannot believe that everything has been completed, 48 hours before the deal. Let’s cross the fingers…

Sailing

I got this photo from a friend. It was 2007. The photo shows the management team of the software company where I landed after my MBA. I am the one with the black tshirt. It was a team building exercise. It was definitely the best team building week I had. Ever. My boss, the second…

ISYS M&A update

Back to work, huge workload, this is the week of the M&A announcement, which is expected to go live this Friday, early afternoon UK/European time. Everything is ready for the official communications, we are testing sites and graphics, and at the same time we are refining all documents that will be part of the communications…