London, 31st January: Reed Exhibitions, the world’s second largest commercial exhibition organiser after Informa Markets, has appointed a new CEO. As of 1st February, Chet Burchett stepped down from his leadership of Reed Exhibitions. Burchett’s replacement is Hugh Jones who will report directly to RELX CEO, Erik Engstrom.

Jones has been with RELX since 2011 when RELX acquired Accuity, a risk management and compliance business. Jones was CEO of Accurity at the time. Jones has held other roles at RELX including Global Managing Director for Accuity, Cirium, Estates Gazette (EG) and ICIS which all fall under the Risk & Business Analytics division of RELX.