Duncan Painter
Chief Executive Officer
Well, look, firstly, welcome to our half year results presentation. We obviously appreciate your continued interest in ATG. And I am delighted to be here as the new CEO, and to clearly get the benefit of the team’s great work on the reaction of the markets this morning, no better to be. What was it Napoleon said? Don’t give me generals, give me lucky generals, right? So clearly, I was a lucky general this morning. So thank you to all of the team for making it very easy for me this morning.
And so I’m sure the question that’s top of all your minds is why did I join ATG. And so what I can tell you it is very simple. Look, I completed my diligence. I was very excited about the growth potential of this business. I mean, great oaks from acorns they become. And so I’m very confident in the original hypothesis of the business. I accept maybe the path hasn’t been quite as straight as you’d all liked it to be, but I’m pretty sure that the opportunity absolutely remains intact. And so I’m excited to take the business and achieve that growth.
The other key thing is, look, I think the strategy generally makes sense. So I’ve not turned up and thought, wow, we
