The AA's IT director has left the company following its
£6.5bn merger with Saga, the insurance provider.
Trevor Didcock will be replaced by Jim Cameron, the IT director
of Saga, who will now act as group IT director over AA and
Saga.
AA and Saga will continue to trade as separate companies,
although a group management team will oversee areas such as
finance, HR and IT, a spokeswoman said.
The announcement comes a week after the EC commission approved
the sale of the AA, valued at £3.3bn, to Saga's private equity
owners, Charterhouse.
Didcock joined the AA in 2004, six months before the breakdown
service was purchased by private equity group CVC Capital Partners
and Permira for £1.7bn.
While at the AA, he was responsible for the company establishing
its own independent
IT infrastructure. Before he joined the AA, Didcock was IT
director at the RAC and before that, he was at confectioner
Mars.
A study commissioned by the GMB union accused the AA of
under-investing in new laptops for patrols. The AA categorically
refuted the claims made by the GMB's report and said that £37m had
been
invested in IT infrastructure over the past three years.
A spokeswoman for the AA said on Didcok's departure that the
company would continue to make significant investments in IT
systems in order to improve services for customers.