TalkTalk Business, the business and wholesale division of UK consumer broadband ISP TalkTalk, has lost its current Managing Director (MD), Paul Lawton, after he "decided to leave" and "pursue opportunities outside the business".

In a prepared statement TalkTalk said that Lawton had "played a pivotal role" in the operators development over recent years and left the ISP with their "best wishes for the future". Still it didn't take long for the provider to find a successor, Charles Bligh, whom will join as the new MD in mid-November 2011.

Bligh is currently responsible for the Commercial sector at IBM in the UK and is said to have a "wealth of experience in the Business-to-Business space". He will report directly to Dido Harding, CEO of the TalkTalk Group.