Directorate Change

Abingdon Health PLC

19 December 2024

 

Abingdon Health plc

("Abingdon Health", the "Group" or the "Company")

Directorate Change

Appointment of Chief Financial Officer

York, U.K. 19 December 2024: Abingdon Health plc (AIM: ABDX), a leading international lateral flow contract research (CRO) and contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), announces the appointment of Tom Hayes as Chief Financial Officer ("CFO") and a Director of the Company. Tom will join Abingdon on 6 January 2025 on a part-time basis and will assume the full-time position by April 2025.

Tom has significant capital markets experience having spent the last ten years as Group Finance Director at Northern Bear plc, an AIM-listed Group of ten specialist building services companies assembled through an acquisition strategy. Tom has previously held roles at Sentio Insight LLP, a boutique advisory firm, providing a range of financial due diligence and transaction services, and Ernst & Young LLP, gaining corporate finance advisory experience in the private equity, corporate and public sectors. Tom qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co.

Tom Hayes

Chief Financial Officer of Abingdon Health plc

Dr Chris Hand, Executive Chairman of Abingdon Health plc, commented: "I am delighted to welcome Tom to Abingdon Health plc as CFO and board director. This is a key time for Tom to join as we continue our growth, consolidate our recent acquisitions and expand our activities into the USA via our Madison, WI base. Tom has over 25 years' experience, particularly with AIM-listed companies, having worked as Group Finance Director at Northern Bear plc and prior to this in advisory roles. 2025 is going to be an exciting year for Abingdon with our upcoming growth plans and Tom with his expertise will be a great addition to the business."

Additional Disclosures Required under the AIM Rules for Companies

Thomas Edward Hayes (aged 48) has held the following directorship or partnerships in the past five years:

Current directorships/partnerships Springs Roofing Limited Alcor Handling Solutions Limited H. Peel & Sons Limited J Lister Electrical Limited Isoler Limited Jennings Roofing Limited	Previous directorships/partnerships (last five years) Sab Invest LLP (Dissolved) Lister Holdings (York) Limited (Dissolved) Jennings Properties Limited (Dissolved) H Peel & Sons (Holdings) Limited (Dissolved) Maxaim Strategic and Financial Management Limited (Dissolved)
Arcas Building Solutions Limited
Northern Bear (Safety) Limited
Wensley Roofing Limited
MGM Limited
Northern Bear plc
SH Consultancy Oakwood Limited
Sentio Insight LLP
A1 Industrial Trucks Limited
System Roofing Services Limited
Northern Bear Construction Limited
Northern Bear Roofing Limited
Joom LLP

Tom Hayes and persons closely associated (as defined under MAR) with Mr Hayes do not hold any shares in the Company.

Save as disclosed above, there is no further information to be disclosed in respect of the above appointment pursuant to Rule 17 and Schedule 2 paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

Enquiries:

Abingdon Health plc	www.abingdonhealth.com/investors/
Chris Yates, Chief Executive Officer		Via Walbrook PR
Chris Hand, Executive Chairman
Zeus (Sole Broker and Nominated Adviser)		Tel: [phone]
Chris Fielding / Alexandra Campbell-Harris (Corporate Finance)
Fraser Marshall (Corporate Broking)
Walbrook PR (Media & Investor Relations)	Tel: [phone] or [e-mail]
Paul McManus / Alice Woodings	Mob: [phone]
Phillip Marriage	[phone]

About Abingdon Health plc

Abingdon Health Group is a leading med-tech contract service provider offering its services to an international customer base.

The Company's CDMO division offers lateral flow product development, regulatory support, technology transfer and manufacturing services for customers looking to develop new assays or transfer existing laboratory-based assays to a lateral flow format. Abingdon Health's CDMO division has the internal capabilities to take lateral flow projects, in areas such as infectious disease and clinical testing, including companion diagnostics, animal health and environmental testing, from initial concept through to routine and large-scale manufacturing; from "idea to commercial success".

Abingdon's regulatory services companies, Compliance Solutions (Life Sciences) and IVDeology, provide a broad range of regulatory services to the in vitro diagnostic and wider medical device industry, to support customers in bringing products to market across a range of territories including the USA, EU and the UK. Our consultancy services range from design, implementation and maintenance of quality management systems, preparation of technical files for regulatory approvals, part-time and interim management support, auditing both internal and external, management reviews and presentations, training and mentoring.

Abingdon Health's Abingdon Simply Test range of self-tests is an e-commerce platform that offers a range of self-tests to empowers consumers to manage their own health and wellbeing. The Abingdon Simply Test e-commerce site offers consumers a range of information to support them in making informed decisions on the tests available. In addition, the site provides Abingdon's contract services customers with a potential route to market for self-tests. The Abingdon Simply Test range is also sold through international distributors and through other channels in the UK and Ireland, such as pharmacy chains.

Founded in 2008, Abingdon Health is headquartered in York, England.

For more information visit: www.abingdonhealth.com

 

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