Published: May 5, 2026 at 9:19 am
Auction Technology Group plc has appointed a former managing director at Sky as CEO.
Duncan Painter will lead the group – which owns 10 marketplaces and connects auction houses with bidders globally – after current CEO John-Paul Savant agreed to stand down after a decade in the role.
The London-listed firm recently rejected a remarkable 12 takeover bids from its largest shareholder FitzWalter Capital, the latest for £491 million.
Painter founded data firm Clarity Blue in 2000 and sold it five years later to Experian for £85 million.
After working as global product leader for Experian, he served as MD of BSkyB’s customer intelligence unit Sky IQ for two and a half years before joining Ascential Plc as chief executive in 2011.