Reuters appoints Interregnum chairman to its board

The board of Reuters Group has appointed Ken Olisa as non-executive director. Olisa has over thirty years of business experience particularly within the technology arena. He began his career at IBM in the UK in a number of systems engineering, sales and marketing roles. In 1981 he joined Wang Laboratories Inc. Following a period as marketing director for Europe, vice president of US marketing and then worldwide marketing, Olisa was appointed senior vice president and general manager of Wang Europe, Africa and the Middle East. In this role he was responsible for the sales, marketing, support, service and administration activities within 11 Wang subsidiaries and 92 distributors. Olisa is chairman and chief executive of Interregnum Plc, which he founded in 1992. He also serves on the board of several of the innovative companies in which Interregnum has an interest, including Metapraxis, Adaptive Inc, BioWisdom, Open Text Corporation and Yospace Technologies Ltd.

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