London Film School: Two Senior Managers Resign Following Neil Peplow’s Exit
11.10.2023 - 12:11
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: The London Film School (LFS) has been hit with a new round of senior managerial exits.
Dan Lawson, the school’s Chief Operating Officer, and Véronique Fricke, the longstanding Head of Marketing and Student Recruitment, have resigned from their positions. The pair announced their departures at a recent managerial meeting. The rest of the school and staff have yet to be informed of Lawson’s resignation.
Lawson will leave the school on October 31. An interim COO will be appointed. Veronique will leave on November 1 for a new position at a higher education institution. Senior Communications Manager Holly Blake will be appointed Acting Head of Marketing.
The exit of Lawson and Fricke comes shortly after Neil Peplow resigned from his position as CEO just ten months after taking the post. Peplow has been replaced by Chris Auty, who joins from the National Film and Television School, where he has been a senior Head of Department for the past ten years. Auty doesn’t take office until November. He will be the school’s third CEO in two years.
Peplow is said to have left the LFS to take up what the school described as a “senior international role in the film industry.” A source close to activities at LFS told Deadline that one of Peplow’s first acts as CEO in January was to appoint a school-wide Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Manager. The position is currently held by former Warner Bros. Discovery EDI exec Dee Kerai.
“We would like to thank Dan and Veronique hugely for all their hard work over the last eight years,” Greg Dyke, Chair of London Film School, said. “They are leaving the school in a much better place, and we wish them well in their new positions. In the meantime, we are appointing an interim COO to
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