Posting on LinkedIn, he said that he would keep his twenty-one percent share in the brewer and pub company and take on the job of “captain and co-founder”—a newly formed non-executive board position that would allow him to continue providing oversight and guidance.
James Arrow, the chief operational officer of Brewdog, will take over for him.
Not too many weeks after being named “the worst employer of the month” by the news, Mr. Watt made the announcement.
According to the union organization, this decision was made in light of Brewdog’s choice to pay the lower legal minimum wage rather than the “real” living wage when hiring new employees this year.
