Ben Garner is the new Colchester United Head Coach
The forty two year old takes over from Matt Bloomfield, having most recently been in charge at Charlton Athletic.
He will observe Saturday's game against Bradford City, which will be overseen by Ross Embleton, before taking training for the first time early next week.
It is expected that additional staff will have joined Ben at the U's by then, but they will be announced in due course.
Garner went into coaching early, spending time in the Academy set-up at Crystal Palace.
After making his way up the age groups, he eventually coached the first team under the likes of Tony Pulis and Alan Pardew.
Spells at West Bromwich Albion and ATK, (Indian Super League), followed, before his first Head Coach role came at Bristol Rovers.
Swindon Town was his next destination, taking the Robins to the Play-Off Semi-Final last summer.
His success at the County Ground didn't go unnoticed in South London, with Garner moving to the Valley to take charge of Charlton ahead of the start of this season.
The first exclusive interview with Ben will be on ColU TV and Twitter at 10.30am.