Directorate Changes

RNS Number : 6280L

Dunedin Income Growth Inv Tst PLC

12 January 2016

 

DUNEDIN INCOME GROWTH INVESTMENT TRUST PLC ('the Company')

Directorate Changes

Following a formal recruitment process, the Board is pleased to announce the appointment of two new independent non-executive Directors, David Barron and Jasper Judd, both of whom will join the Board on 1 February 2016 and stand for election at the Annual General Meeting on 25 May 2016.

David Barron is a Chartered Accountant and is a director of Miton Group plc, where he holds the role of Director of Investment Trusts and Product Strategy. He is a non-executive director of Artemis Alpha Trust plc and a Member of the Council and Audit Committee of Lancaster University. He was, until 2013, Head of Investment Trusts of JP Morgan Asset Management and, until 2014, a director of The Association of Investment Companies.

Jasper Judd is a Chartered Accountant. Until 2012, he worked for Brambles Limited, a listed Australian multinational, where he held a number of senior executive roles including Global Head of Strategy. He is a non-executive director of JP Morgan Indian Investment Trust plc.

There are no further disclosures required under Section 9.6.13 of the Financial Conduct Authority Listing Rules in relation to either of these appointments.

The Board also announces that, Peter Wolton, who has been a non-executive Director of the Company since May 2006, will retire from the Board at the Annual General Meeting on 25 May 2016. The Board would like to thank Peter for his significant contribution to the Company over this time.

Following the above appointments and Peter Wolton's retirement, the Board will comprise six independent non-executive Directors for a transitional period. This is in line with the Board's succession plans and its wish to ensure a suitable period of overlap between incoming and outgoing members. It is the Board's current intention that one further long serving Director will retire at the Annual General Meeting in 2017, thereby taking the number of Directors back to five.

For Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust PLC

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC, SECRETARY

 

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