Lightfoot gears up for European expansion with senior management changes

Paul Hollick has been promoted to the position of chief executive at Lightfoot as the driver training technology specialist gears up for expansion in Europe.

Hollick, who is also chair of the Association of Fleet Professionals (AFP), has been promoted to the CEO role from his previous position as managing director.

He replaces Rupert Lyon Taylor who has stepped back from the role of CEO and is moving into the new position of chief customer officer (CCO).

Hollick said: “I am delighted to be made CEO at what is an immensely exciting time as we roll out ambitious plans to expand the Lightfoot business, and our innovative decarbonisation and safety proposition, internationally.

“Businesses across Europe take decarbonisation and safety very seriously and we know our offering will provide fleet operators with the data and insight to build safer and more efficient vehicle operations.

“We have achieved so much as a business in the past few years and in my new role as CEO I look forward to creating even more success for Lightfoot.”

Lyon Taylor said he will remain on Lightfoot's executive team in the new role of CCO and added: "Paul has been with us for three years and led the new business sales, product, marketing and growth teams as well as being part of the executive leadership.

"He knows our business very well, but he also knows the sector incredibly well through his role as chair of the AFP and extensive senior management roles at other businesses within the fleet sector.”

Lyon Taylor has been with Lightfoot since 2017, supporting founder Mark Roberts to grow the business before receiving investment from Volpi Capital in 2021, at which point the firm brought in Hollick as MD and Neil Warman as chief financial officer.

Elsewhere, Andrew Betteley has been appointed as chief technology officer, making permanent the interim role he had been fulfilling since the summer of 2024.

Betteley has a long career working within automotive technology and has been brought into the business to support and streamline Lightfoot’s engineering and development processes.