Following the recent investment by Lyceum Capital Partners in Briefing Media (July 2015) the company announces that Gehan Talwatte has joined as Chairman of the business.
Gehan has a long history of media entrepreneurship and investing. After starting his career at Dun & Bradstreet in the USA he went on to co-found a software start-up in India – Cognisant Technology Solutions. Gehan then set up a workflow and credit automation business (eccelerate.com) which was sold to AIG.
He was co-founder and CEO of Hoover’s Online Europe (sold to D&B in 2005) and most recently CEO of Ascend Worldwide, the leading aviation information business, backed by LDC, which was sold to Reed Business Information in 2011.