Appointment of New Directors

RNS Number : 1603Z

Edinburgh Worldwide Inv Trust PLC

08 January 2020

 

Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust plc

Legal Entity Identifier: 213800JUA8RKIDDLH380

Regulated Information Classification: Additional regulated information required to be disclosed under the laws of a Member State of the EU.

Appointment of New Directors

The Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Caroline Roxburgh and Mr Jonathan Simpson-Dent as non-executive Directors of the Company with effect from 1 February 2020.

Ms Caroline Roxburgh is a Chartered Accountant and was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP until 2016. She has over 30 years' business experience advising boards in a range of industry sectors, on business strategy, risk management, governance, financial reporting and internal control. Her experience covers developing businesses to large listed companies in the UK and internationally.

Caroline is a non-executive director and chair of the audit committee of Montanaro European Smaller Companies Trust plc, a non-executive director and chair of the audit and risk committee of Edinburgh International Festival Society, a non-executive director of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and a publicly appointed member of the board of directors and chair of the audit and risk committee of VisitScotland.

Mr Jonathan Simpson-Dent has spent the majority of his career running entrepreneurial Private Equity and listed mid-cap international growth businesses across multiple sectors, being a former CEO of Evander Group, Cardpoint and WLT (EMEA), CCO of Cardtronics Inc and CFO of HomeServe Plc and General Healthcare Group. He has also previously worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, McKinsey & Company and PepsiCo. He is also the Chair of Bromford Housing Group Ltd and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

The appointment of Ms Roxburgh and Mr Simpson-Dent fall to be ratified by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in January 2021.

There is no further information required to be disclosed under Listing Rule 9.6.13.

Baillie Gifford & Co Limited

Managers and Secretaries

8 January 2020

 

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