Appointment of Directors

HG Capital Trust PLC
05 April 2004

Appointment of new Directors



HgCapital Trust PLC announces that Roger Mountford and Andrew Murison have
agreed to join the Board, as non - executive directors, with effect from 20
April 2004.

Roger Mountford spent thirty years as a merchant banker in the City of London
and in the Far East, latterly as a Managing Director in the Corporate Finance
Department of SG Hambros, responsible for the bank's private equity advisory
practice. He now serves on a number of boards including the Civil Aviation
Authority, where he is Chairman of the CAA Pension Scheme, and the Port of
Dover. He is Chairman of Enterprise LSE Limited.

Andrew Murison was Senior Bursar of Peterhouse, Cambridge for nine years and
previously for twelve years a principal in private equity partnerships in the
USA. Prior to that he was a fund manager, financial journalist and investment
banker in the City of London. He serves on a number of boards and is Chairman of
the J P Morgan Fleming Continental European Investment Trust.


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