Keywords Studios announced the appointment of Sonia Lashand Sedler to the Board of Keywords Studios as the Group's Chief Operating Officer ("COO"), with effect from 18 January 2021. In this new Board position which reports to Andrew Day, CEO, Sonia will be working closely with Andrew and Jon Hauck, CFO, and will take responsibility for the day to day operational running of the business. With Keywords Studios growing strongly both organically and through acquisitions, Sonia and her team will help to ensure that company continue to apply best operational practices and constantly evolve customer propositions, as company broaden its services and seek operational synergies through the integration of acquisitions and innovation in technologies and services. The addition of this role will enable Andrew Day to focus more fully on the continued strategic development of the Group. Sonia has 20 years of experience in scaling up businesses internationally through senior roles, most recently as Global Head of Managed Services and Banking Strategy at Diebold Nixdorf, a global retail and banking technology and services organisation, where she was responsible for its managed services business.