Haymarket Exhibitions group operations director Grahame Jones has left the company after 38 years.
He joined Haymarket as a data input operator and was one of Haymarket Exhibitions鈥 first employees when Peter Osborne founded the division in 1989.
Jones said a highlight was introducing live car racing to the NEC with Autosport International in 1996. He added: 鈥淎fter 21 years in publishing and 17 years in the exhibitions industry, walking into the unknown, setting industry standards and in particular driving Haymarket Exhibitions to the next level, I鈥檓 looking for something that can equal those challenges or come close to them.鈥