Directorate Change

RNS Number : 8218C

Assura Group Limited

08 May 2012

 



8 May 2012

Assura Group Limited

("Assura" or the "Company")

Directorate Change

Assura, the primary healthcare property group, announces the appointment of a Non Executive Director, Jenefer Greenwood, with immediate effect.

Jenefer Greenwood is currently Director of Sales and Lettings for Grosvenor Britain and Ireland. She was also appointed to the Board of The Crown Estate in 2004, and chairs its Remuneration Committee.  Jenefer is a Chartered Surveyor, and started her career at Hillier Parker. She has worked for Grosvenor since 2003, having also been Chair of the National Skills Academy for Retail and President of the British Council of Shopping Centres.

Jenefer will join the Nomination, Remuneration and Audit Committees. She will take the Chair of the Remuneration Committee later this month, at which point Clare Hollingsworth will step down from the board.

Simon Laffin, Non-executive Chairman of Assura, commented:

"I am delighted that Assura has managed to attract another director of the calibre of Jenefer Greenwood to join the Board. She brings 34 years of working in real estate, which will further strengthen the Board's property expertise. Together with the recent appointments of Graham Roberts as Chief Executive and David Richardson to head the Audit Committee, this means that the entire board will have changed over the last nine months. I am confident that the new board will provide powerful and focussed leadership for Assura for the future."

Jenefer Greenwood, commented:

"This is an exciting time for me to join the Board of Assura. I am looking forward to contributing to Assura's future development as a pure play primary healthcare property company. Assura is in an attractive and robust niche of the property market, with many unique and attractive features for investors. Importantly it is also providing much needed capital to improve the quality of GP surgery premises."

As required by Listing Rule 9.6.13, there are no current or past directorships in other publicly quoted companies to be declared.

There is no other information required to be disclosed pursuant to Listing Rule 6.13R in respect of Jenefer Greenwood.

Enquiries:

For further information, please contact:

Assura Group Limited Simon Laffin, Chairman Graham Roberts, Chief Executive Officer

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Cenkos Securities plc  Ian Soanes, Adrian Hargrave

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Investec Bank plc Gary Clarence, Patrick Robb Daniel Adams

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FTI Consulting Ben Atwell, Richard Sunderland Stephanie Cuthbert

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Editor's notes

Assura Group Limited is the leading UK primary healthcare property company. It develops, builds, manages and owns primary healthcare assets, principally modern, purpose-built GP surgeries. On 30 September 2011, it owned £528m of investment property and assets under construction. Assura Group is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

 

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