Rod Flavel, CEO of FDM Group, many
congratulations on winning the European CEO
Award for Best CEO of the IT Industry
2015. Thank you Jenny, absolutely
fantastic. I'm blown away. I think the
first thing I'd like to do is thank the
editorial staff of European CEO magazine,
the panel, and all the folks that
actually voted for me and gave me the
opportunity to receive this today. I'm
extremely grateful. I have some thank
yous to make, and that's to two key
colleagues: Sheila Flavel and Andy Brown,
who, without those two behind the
business it wouldn't have reached the
giddy heights that it has. Also my
shareholders FDM IPO'd last year and so
many of our clients backed the IPO. So it's
a big debt of gratitude for them. The
universities, worldwide universities, who
support our cause, who provide us with
fantastically well educated students to
join our vocational programmes, and then
the staff. Without the people at FDM we'd
be nothing, so I'm a very lucky CEO today.
Thank you again for thinking of me for
this. I guess that's it really. Cheers.
