Escenic has appointed former product strategy vice president Mark van de Kamp as its new chief executive.

He succeeds Ulrik Cramer - who stepped in when CCI bought Escenic in November 2013 - in the role, although Cramer will continue as solution strategist for both companies.

Dutchman van de Kamp (40) joined Escenic in 2009 in product strategy, sales and running Escenic's professional services unit

Dan Korsgaard, chief executive of CCI Europe and chairman of Escenic, says his "strategic overview and deep understanding of how technology helps newsrooms and their people" makes van de Kamp is the right chief executive for Escenic.

He says Escenic is "on an active track" to build the best newsroom tools for digital storytelling. We are building the next generation of Escenic tools to empower newsrooms to embrace the digital future."

The company will also focus on automation processes to enable continuous delivery. "To stay connected to customer needs, we aim to develop our key new products in a partnership with our customers," he says. "Currently, we're developing new products with Trinity Mirror in the UK, Axel Springer in Germany, McClatchy in the USA and Amedia in Norway."

Responding to a need for tools that adapt as fast as new ideas emerge, Escenic is aligning development resources to move away from 'big bang upgrades' and to frequent software releases - with digital storytelling is at the heart of all efforts.