Directorate Change

RNS Number : 7017S

JPMorgan Claverhouse IT PLC

07 November 2019

 

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT

JPMORGAN CLAVERHOUSE INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTORS

Legal Entity Identifier: 549300NFZYYFSCD52W53

Information disclosed in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.11(1)

The Board of JPMorgan Claverhouse Investment Trust plc is pleased to announce the appointments of Victoria Stewart and Nicholas Melhuish as Non-Executive Directors of the Company with effect from 1st February 2020. It has previously been announced that Humphrey van der Klugt and Jane Tufnell intend to retire as Directors following the Company's Annual General Meeting in 2020.

Victoria has spent twenty two years as a fund manager, joining Chiswell Investment Management in 1994 before moving to Royal London Asset Management in 1998. She was the sole manager of the Royal London UK Smaller Companies Fund from its inception in 2007, leaving in 2016 and taking up a non-executive director role with Secure Trust Bank PLC where she is Chairman of the Remuneration Committee. Victoria is also a non-executive director of the Artemis Alpha Fund plc.

Mrs Stewart does not own any shares in the Company.

Nick joined Corpus Christi College, Oxford, as Fellow & Bursar in September 2018 after spending 27 years as a portfolio manager, most recently as Head of Global Equities at the European asset manager Amundi SA. He is a Trustee of the Trusthouse Charitable Foundation, a grant giving charity which helps support non-profit activities in areas of urban and rural deprivation. He also serves as a director and Trustee of The London Clinic, a medical charity and hospital, and lectures at the Said Business School on asset management.

Mr Melhuish does not own any shares in the Company.

No further information is to be disclosed in respect of paragraphs 9.6.13(2) - (6) of the UKLA Listing Rules for Mrs Stewart or Mr Melhuish.

7th November 2019

For further information, please contact:

Faith Pengelly

JPMorgan Funds Limited - Company Secretary

Telephone [phone]

 

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