Alternative vet Quartermaine exits Daisy, Daisy...

Brit IT services giant Daisy Group has waved goodbye to former Alternative Networks CEO Mark Quartermaine – just months after it bought the comms and tech integrator, an internal document has confirmed. The absorption of Alternative, bought for £165m in December, was detailed in a memo this week by Daisy CEO Neil Muller, who …

[Anonymous Coward]

Mr Quartermaine

Is he going off to explore Africa like his namesake

[Anonymous Coward]

Bye!

good riddance to him. Walked a growing company into three profit warnings and halved the share price, all in just over a year. Nice work.

[Anonymous Coward]

Did anyone else read that headline and wonder what the hell an "alternative vet" might be?!

[Anonymous Coward]

british left waffles on falklands

It was amusing trying to parse this headline. I thought Alternative vet Quartermaine was something like an alternative blood lab called Theranos. I rolled my eyes and thought, would those damn disruptors please leave the sick animals alone? But no, it's their mission to break up the power of the incumbent veterinarians' cartel. It would be funny, except I'm sure there actually is a startup like this. The vets are all precarious freelancers, or as Quartermaine prefers to refer to the community, "Quarties."