INM chief Pitt to leave company

Chief executive had been involved in high-profile dispute with INM's chairman

INM chief executive Robert Pitt and chairman Leslie Buckley. Picture: Fergal Phillips

The chief executive of media group INM, Robert Pitt, is to leave the company.

The news came in a short statement to the stock exchange which said that Pitt had decided to leave to pursue other interests, with effect from Friday.

Pitt has been involved in a high-profile dispute with INM chairman Leslie Buckley, which culminated in Pitt’sabstention in the vote to re-elect Buckley at a meeting of the company’s shareholders in August.