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Simon is Vistraโs Chief Executive Officer, joining in November 2022.
He is a Chartered Management Accountant with deep expertise in scaling international, B2B businesses to drive superior shareholder returns. As CEO, he leads the Executive Leadership Team, engaging stakeholders and overseeing the delivery of Vistraโs strategic priorities. A core focus of Simon’s leadership is creating value for Vistra’s stakeholder communities and helping clients achieve their growth ambitions.
Before joining Vistra, Simon served as Group CEO of CPA Global (now Clarivate) for 21 years. In this role, he transformed a single-product, 250-person business generating ยฃ15m in revenue into the de facto intellectual property industry platform. By 2021, CPA Global had become the clear market leader in every major geography, offering over 20 data, information, software, and tech-enabled services solutions to a global workforce of 3,500+ employees, worth over $7 billion. As Vistraโs CEO, the ambition is, once again, to redefine the category and more than double the value of the business.
Simon believes in the power of business to be a force for positive change. He sets the direction of the business, vision, strategy, and culture, inspiring people across the organisation to deliver exceptional service and value to clients. He aligns people to the organisationโs purpose to partner with clients as they pursue their growth ambitions.
Simon is a strong advocate of personal wellbeing across all aspects of life. In 2020, he founded a VC that โinvests in happinessโ and he believes in the transformative power of sleep, health, fitness, and happiness to drive both professional and personal achievement.
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