Directorate change
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Monday 3rd August 2026
Mind Gym plc
("MindGym", the "Company")
Directorate Change
Mind Gym plc, the behavioural science company, announces that Octavius Black CBE will step down from his role as Executive Chair and from the Board due to ill health, with effect from Monday 3rd August.
Octavius co-founded MindGym in 2000 with Dr Sebastian Bailey and has led the Company throughout its twenty-six-year history, including its admission to AIM in 2018. Under his leadership MindGym has grown into an international behavioural science business that has worked with the majority of the FTSE 100 and S&P 100 and changed the way millions of professionals think, feel and behave at work.
Octavius remains one of the Company's largest shareholders and has confirmed to the Board his continuing commitment to the Company as a long-term shareholder.
Board arrangements
David Nelson will chair the Board on an interim basis and the Board will conduct a process to appoint a new Chair in due course. David has served on MindGym's board since before our IPO and is a Chartered Accountant, in practice, with a number of other non-executive director roles. The Company's executive leadership is unchanged: Christoffer Ellehuus continues as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), supported by the senior management team.
Octavius Black CBE, Co-Founder, commented:
"When Sebastian and I started MindGym, our mission was to help people use their minds more effectively so they can get more out of life and give more to others. Twenty-six years on, that mission is being carried forward by an excellent team. Reluctantly, I have had to accept medical advice to give up my role, but I do so knowing the Company is in very capable hands, and they have my full support."
David Nelson, Non-Executive Director and Interim Chair commented:
"On behalf of the Board and everyone at MindGym, I want to record our gratitude to Octavius for twenty-six years of extraordinary leadership, and to wish him the very best for the future. His conviction that behavioural science can change working life for the better built this Company and remains at the heart of it. The Board's focus is unchanged: supporting the CEO and the management team as they lead MindGym's strategy to build a digitally enabled and recurring revenue business."
Enquiries:
MindGym plc +44 (0)20 7376 0626
David Nelson, Non-Executive Director and Interim Chair
Christoffer Ellehuus, Chief Executive Officer
Panmure Liberum (Nominated Adviser and Broker) +44 (0)20 3100 2000
Nick How
Will King
MHP (Public Relations Adviser) +44 (0)7831 406117
Reg Hoare mindgym@mhpgroup.com
Jake Terry
About MindGym
MindGym delivers business improvement solutions using scalable, proprietary products based on behavioural science. The Company operates in three global markets: business transformation, human capital management and learning & development.
MindGym is listed on the London Stock Exchange Alternative Investment Market (ticker: MIND) and headquartered in London. The business has offices in London, New York and Singapore.
Further information is available at www.themindgym.com
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