Caterer and retailer LSG Group, has restructured some activities. As part of this realignment, a standalone management team for subsidiary Retail inMotion’s global operations has been established and tasked with steering the business into a new era.

The new team will have more of a global outlook, and will involve significant investment into IT enhancements. The move will align RiM more closely with its key markets, allowing it to better compete with digitally nimble competitors, develop new partnerships and enhance its growth prospects.

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John Moriarty will lead this team as its new CEO. John joins the company from Beyond, a travel and hospitality tech development and advisory service, where he is the founder and CEO. He previously served as Chief Retail Officer of Gategroup, being responsible for the global retail division, and held various leadership positions with Runway Duty Free and Aer Rianta.

Later in the year, Moriarty will be joined by a CTO and a COO.

Incumbents Elizabeth Repolho da Silva (CFO), Laura Roesges (CCO), Marius Banholzer (CRO) and Trish Costelloe (CCSO) will remain part of RiM’s top management team to refocus the organisation on developing a customer-centric culture that allows it to better deliver on its winning strategy.

Along with all teams around the world, the team at RiM in Dublin will continue to be supported by the GCRI1 Board of Directors and AURELIUS Portfolio Advisory Managing Directors, René Herzog and Janno Gröne, ensuring success in the next stage of their growth trajectory.

“We want to give Retail inMotion the power to control its own destiny,” said Erdmann Rauer, LSG Group CEO. “The management team, led by John Moriarty, will enable the business to take decisions faster and operate more efficiently, reinvigorating its sense of purpose and allowing it to unlock new value-creation opportunities. By ensuring that Retail inMotion better serves the needs of its customers, suppliers and partners, I am confident that today marks the start of a bright future for the business.”

Karin Sonnenmoser’s interim Global CFO responsibilities at the LSG Group to its natural conclusion; she will therefore step down from her current role. Erdmann Rauer is also stepping back from his current role as Group CEO and has agreed to remain with the business as Senior Strategic Advisor, supporting the business through the transition to a new organisational structure.