Gautam Sahgal, 44, stepped up from finance director to chief executive for the first time in 2012 when he was asked to take the failing business directory firm Thomson through a pre-pack administration, shedding almost 800 staff, as its Italian parent also went through a CVA. He left Thomson in 2015 as a digital business of 120 people and is now chief executive of the global employee rewards platform Perkbox, which had gross sales of £73 million last year and employs 165 people.
Thomson, from the outside, was clearly failing
Its revenue was declining, it was losing money. Staff motivation was very low. But then when I got in, what I learnt was the people who had been there a long time had a different
