Result of AGM and Directorate Change

RNS Number : 1096A

Braveheart Investment Group plc

24 September 2015

 

24 September 2015

Braveheart Investment Group plc

('Braveheart', the 'Company' or the 'Group')

Result of AGM

Directorate change

Braveheart Investment Group plc (AIM: BRH), the financial services company that facilitates SME growth through investment by public and private sector sources, announces that at the Annual General Meeting of the Group held earlier today, all resolutions were duly passed.

Following the approval of all resolutions, the Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Andrew Burton as a director of the Board.

Andrew Burton, currently CEO of Viking Fund Managers Limited, has been with the Group since 2009 and is an experienced fund manager. He has worked with high growth firms, advising on all aspects of early stage technology-based business and funding for more than 25 years. He was Chairman of the Yorkshire Association of Business Angels, an investment syndicate, before it was incorporated into Envestors at the Company's London office. Previously, he was a director of national incubation body UKBI and of the Yorkshire and Humber Objective 2 fund, Partnership Investment Finance.

The following additional information relating to Mr Burton is disclosed under Rule 17 or Schedule 2 paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

Mr Andrew Thomas Guy Burton, aged 66, holds or has held the following directorships and/or partnerships in the previous five years:

Present Directorships/Partnerships	Past Directorships/Partnerships
The Ridings Early Growth Investment Company Limited Ridings Holdings Limited Finance Yorkshire Equity GP Limited Viking Fund Managers Limited Viking Directors Limited SNG Commercial Limited Magnomatics Limited SNG Commercial (Holdings) Limited	The Viking Business Angels Club Limited Gate1234 Limited Neon Capital Partners Limited Distant Control Limited

Mr Burton was a director of the following companies at the time they went into members' voluntary liquidations:

The Viking Business Angels Club Limited

Gate1234 Limited

Neon Capital Partners Limited

Distant Control Limited

Mr Burton holds 880,000 ordinary shares in the Company, equivalent to 3.25% of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company.

No additional information relating to Mr Burton is required to be disclosed under Rule 17 or Schedule 2 paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

Further information:

Braveheart Investment Group plc

Trevor Brown, CEO                                                                                                          Tel: [phone]

Sanlam Securities UK Limited (Nominated Advisor and Broker to Braveheart)

Lindsay Mair / James Thomas                                                                                     Tel: [phone]

 

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