London-listed insurance software company Sherwood International has appointed Martyn Lambert to its board as chief marketing officer, with immediate effect.

Lambert, 47, has worked in the information technology industry for over 20 years in the UK, Europe and the US. He joins Sherwood from Cygent, a US-based solutions and services company, where he was responsible for the Europe, Middle East and Africa operations.

Prior to Cygent, he worked with Hewlett-Packard, Siemens-Pyramid, Sun Microsystems, and Dell.

He has been responsible for the introduction of several new software solution technologies over the last 20 years and was elected a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) for the marketing of Sun Microsystems Java software.