Kidd and Pay: George hangs up the PhonepayPlus gig.

Wham! George joins Andrew for reunion.

George Kidd dramatically resigned as Chief Exec at unregulator PhonepayPlus this week under a cloud (well it's been a bit overcast in London these last few days!)  Nobody has gone public as to why nor is it known whether this has anything to do with the recent resignation of Andrew Bud.

Readers may remember Bud was surrounded in controversy due to the conflict of interest between his role as regulator-extraordinaire and mBlox founder and former CEO (he was effectively regulating himself).

Well the Kidd's gone too.  One could say, this Kidd won't stay in the picture!  He'll be replaced by Paul Whiteing who is currently Director of Policy and Innovation at the unregulator.  Policy and Innovation?  They're meant to be a regulator for Christ sakes, not a bloody Web 2.0 start-up!  WTF do they have to innovate?

Check out the pictures of the board members sometime.  It's nice to see the board is comprised of a nice mix of middle aged white men and a couple of middle aged white women.  Who needs diversity anyways?  To be fair, it's probably middle aged white men that ring up adult chatlines and middle aged white women ringing up rigged premium rate competitions on Genetically Modified TV and Punch & Judy.