RM promotes Brooks to COO

Education specialist RM has strengthened its Board with the appointment of RM long-timer David Brooks as COO. Brooks joined RM as a graduate and was most recently MD of the Education Software division. He’s been working closely with Executive Chairman Martyn Ratcliffe in recent months and has clearly impressed him enough to get the job as his right-hand man. In fact, the most interesting thing in the announcement was mention of what the pair has been working on: a “number of new initiatives which RM will be launching later this year”. We’ll be watching with interest to see what rabbits RM pulls out of the hat…