Appointment of NED

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Brooks Macdonald Group PLC

09 June 2020

 

9 June 2020

BROOKS MACDONALD GROUP PLC

Appointment of non-executive director

Brooks Macdonald Group plc ("The Group", "Brooks Macdonald") is pleased to announce the appointment of Dagmar Aspatria Kent Kershaw as a non-executive director, with effect from 1 July 2020.

Ms. Kent Kershaw (aged 52) is Senior Advisor at Strategic Value Partners, Director of Aberdeen Smaller Companies Trust plc, and a Trustee of Laurus Trust.

Ms. Kent Kershaw was formerly Head of Credit Fund Management at Intermediate Capital Group plc from 2008-2016.  Prior to that, Ms. Kent Kershaw held senior roles at Prudential M&G, having started her career at NatWest Bank and Scotia Capital.

Commenting on the appointment, Alan Carruthers, Chairman of Brooks Macdonald, said:

"I am delighted to welcome Dagmar to the Board. Her broad background in financial services will be highly valuable to the Group as we take the next steps in our strategy."

Other required disclosures

During the last five years immediately preceding the date of this announcement, Ms. Kent Kershaw held the following directorships:

· Nomadic Advisors Limited - current

· Blackden Estates Limited - current

· Blackden Events Limited - current

· Highgrove (Alderley Edge) Management Company Limited - current

· Aberdeen Smaller Companies Trust plc - current

· Laurus Trust - current

· 46 Hawthorn Street Management Company Limited - dissolved via voluntary strike off in 2015.

Ms. Kent Kershaw's maiden name was Dagmar Aspatria Kent and she was previously known as Dagmar Aspatria Wielengowski.

There are no further matters to be disclosed pursuant to paragraph (g) of schedule 2 of the AIM Rules.

Enquiries to:

Brooks Macdonald Group plc Caroline Connellan, CEO Ben Thorpe, Group Finance Director	020 7659 3492
Peel Hunt LLP (Nominated Adviser and Broker) Guy Wiehahn / John Welch	020 7418 8900
MHP Communications Reg Hoare / Simon Hockridge / Charlie Barker	020 3128 8540 [e-mail]

Notes to editors

Brooks Macdonald Group plc, through its various subsidiaries, provides leading investment management services in the UK and internationally. The Group, which was founded in 1991 and began trading on AIM in 2005, had Discretionary Funds under Management of £12.2 billion as at 31 March 2020.

Brooks Macdonald offers a range of investment management services to private high net worth individuals, pension funds, institutions, charities and trusts. The Group also provides financial planning as well as offshore investment management and acts as fund manager to two regulated OEICs (the IFSL Brooks Macdonald Fund and the SVS Cornelian Investment Funds) providing a range of risk-managed multi-asset funds and a specialised absolute return fund.

The Group has twelve offices across the UK and the Channel Islands including London, East Anglia, Hampshire, Leamington Spa, Leeds, Manchester, Taunton, Tunbridge Wells, Scotland, Wales, Jersey and Guernsey.

LEI: 213800WRDF8LB8MIEX37

www.brooksmacdonald.com / @BrooksMacdonald

 

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