Pivotal Scientific Limited (PSL) today announced that Richard Atkins, Chief Operating Officer, is moving from his role at PSL to sister company 2BScientific (2BS) as Chief Commercial Officer.
Richard spent more than seven and a half years at PSL, starting as Marketing Manager and working his way up to Chief Operating Officer. He has played a key role in driving the business forward resulting in a four-fold increase in revenues and employees.
With 2BS seeing phenomenal growth over the past few years, now was the opportunity to bring his expertise to maintain and grow the company even further.
Joining as Chief Commercial Officer he will be mentoring the heads of sales and marketing and will provide a more overarching commercial outlook to 2BS, as well as attracting new customers & new sales techniques through relationship building, networking and tactical digital marketing.
Despite the move, he will continue to be closely involved with PSL. He will remain as a Non-Executive Board advisor for commercial input and consistency and will be continuing to remain as a advisor to the PSL C-Suite.
Richard Atkins commented:
“I am looking forward to taking on this new role and being able to help drive the 2BS business forward whilst still supporting the PSL business in a commercial, consultative role”.
Tim Bernard (CEO of PLS and Chairman of 2BS) commented:
“We’re very excited for Richard to begin his new role, having already worked closely with 2BS, he can immediately bring his expertise in growing the commercial outlook whilst continuing to be involved at PSL.”
Richard will begin the new role on January 1st 2024.