Directorate Change

Hydrogen Future Industries PLC

14 June 2024

 

14 June 2024

Hydrogen Future Industries plc

("HFI", the "Company" or the "Group")

Directorate Change

Hydrogen Future Industries plc (AQSE: HFI), a developer of a proprietary wind-based green hydrogen production system featuring an advanced aerodynamic wind turbine and a high-performance electrolyser, announces that Hannah Haxby (known by her maiden name Hannah Woodley) has been appointed as a Non-executive Director of the Company with immediate effect. In addition, the Company provides additional disclosure in relation to Timothy Blake, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, detailed below.

Ms Woodley has 20 years' experience across equity capital markets and investment banking including with investment banks such as Singer Capital Markets, Panmure Gordon, and Collins Stewart (now Canaccord), and through her consultancy business, Woodley Consulting Limited. She is currently Commercial Director at Asset Match, an online marketplace to buy and sell shares in UK private companies via periodic auctions.

Save as set out below, no further information regarding Ms Woodley is required to be disclosed pursuant to Rule 4.9 of the AQSE Growth Market Access Rulebook.

Hannah Victoria Woodley Haxby (aged 43) has held the following directorships within the past five years:

Current directorships	Directorships in the past 5 years
Switch Address Limited	Victoria Woodley Limited
Woodley Consulting Limited

Ms Woodley does not hold any ordinary shares, options or warrants over ordinary shares in the Company.

Timothy Blake disclosures

Further to the announcement of Mr Blake's appointment to the role of Chief Executive Officer (non-Board position) on 25 April 2024, the Company provides the following disclosures in line with Rule 4.9 of the AQSE Growth Market Access Rulebook.

Timothy Blake (aged 56) has held the following directorships within the past five years:

Current directorships	Directorships in the past 5 years
HFI Consulting Limited	LGT Advanced Technology Limited*
HFI Energy Systems Limited
HFI IP Holdings Limited
HFI Energy Systems US Inc

*LGT Advanced Technology Limited was placed into liquidation on 27 November 2019 and the winding up was finalised on 2 May 2024. Mr Blake was appointed as a director on 2 July 2008.

970 CXI Limited was placed into liquidation and the winding up was finalised on 20 May 2003. Mr Blake was appointed as a director on 19 January 2001.

G T Logistics Limited was placed into liquidation on 28 November 2001 and the winding up was finalised on 12 March 2006. Mr Blake was appointed as a director on 23 July 1998.

Mr Blake has advised the Company that during 2001-2002, he was disqualified from being a director of a company for four years.

Mr Blake holds 15,000,000 ordinary shares in the Company representing approximately 24.3 per cent of the issued share capital of the Company. Mr Blake also holds 3,000,000 options and 500,000 warrants over new ordinary shares in the Company.

There is no further information which would be expected to be disclosed in line with Rule 4.9 of the AQSE Growth Market Access Rulebook.

Enquiries:

Hydrogen Future Industries plc
Timothy Blake, Chief Executive Officer Daniel Maling, Chief Commercial Officer	[phone]
Vigo Consulting (Investor Relations)
Ben Simons	[phone]
Peter Jacob
Cairn Financial Advisers LLP (AQSE Corporate Adviser)
Ludovico Lazzaretti Liam Murray	[phone]
Peterhouse Capital Limited (Broker)
Duncan Vasey	[phone]

Inside Information

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of the UK Market Abuse Regulation and the Directors of the Company accept responsibility for the contents of this announcement.

About Hydrogen Future Industries

Hydrogen Future Industries was established to invest in projects and companies focused on the Hydrogen Economy. We are developing a proprietary wind-based hydrogen production system, incorporating hydrogen compression and storage. Hydrogen Future Industries is at the forefront of green hydrogen production with its integrated system that marries an advanced ducted wind turbine with a state-of-the-art Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyser (AEMWE). This innovative pairing is designed to optimise renewable energy for the efficient production of hydrogen.

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