Adrian Meldrum Joins IQE Board

IQE plc


Cardiff, UK, 29 June 2010.  IQE ("IQE" or "Group" or "the Company"), the leading
supplier of advanced semiconductor wafer services for the Wireless,
Optoelectronic, Solar, and Solid-State Lighting industries is pleased to
announce the appointment of Adrian Meldrum to the board of IQE as Business
Development Director.

Adrian Meldrum, 40, will have specific responsibility for developing IQE's
growing position in opto electronic products. These include the rapidly
expanding consumer optoelectronic product lines, third generation Concentrator
Photo Voltaics (CPV) and penetration of the Solid State Lighting (SSL) market
through IQE's recently acquired NanoGaN subsidiary.

Adrian joined IQE in October 2009, and has over 15 years experience in the
optoelectronics market sector having held a range of technical and commercial
roles with JDSU and more recently, business development and sales & marketing
roles at Bookham (now Oclaro) where he was Executive Vice President and General
Manager of the Telecom Division until joining IQE.

The appointment complements and further strengthens the Group's Board, and
brings a high level of opto electronic business experience to IQE.

IQE's comprehensive portfolio of products includes III-V PHEMT, HBT, and BiFET
epi-wafers for the wireless industry, as well as wafers for Lasers, detectors,
VCSELs, Ultra High Brightness LEDs and multi-junction photovoltaic solar cells
for CPV applications. IQE's products are grown by MBE, MOCVD and CVD at IQE's
seven manufacturing sites in the US, UK, and Singapore.

Adrian Gilmour Meldrum holds no further current and previous directorships and
partnerships over the past five years.

Save for the information disclosed above there is no other information falling
to be disclosed under schedule 2 paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules.
 

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Phil Rasmussen

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Sam Reynolds

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