Directorate Change

RNS Number : 6831P

JPMorgan Indian Invest Trust PLC

11 October 2019

 

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT

JPMORGAN INDIAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTORS

Legal Entity Identifier: 5493006R74BNJSJKCB17

Information disclosed in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.11(1)

The Board of JPMorgan Indian Investment Trust plc is pleased to announce the appointments of Vanessa Donegan and Jeremy Whitley as Non-Executive Directors of the Company with effect from 1st February 2020.

Vanessa Donegan joined Allied Dunbar Assurance in 1986 and became a Founder Executive Director of Threadneedle Investments when Allied Dunbar Assurance merged with Eagle Star in 1994. She remained with the group, which later became Columbia Threadneedle Investments, until her retirement in 2018, holding various senior positions, including Head of Asia Pacific Equities, EMEA. She is a non-executive director of Herald Investment Management

Mrs. Donegan owns 8,155 shares in the Company.

Jeremy Whitley is a non-executive director and chairman of the audit committee of The Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust plc and chairman and trustee of Sustainable Inshore Fisheries Trust. Jeremy left Aberdeen Asset Management in March 2017, where he had been Head of UK and European equities since July 2009, following a twenty nine year investment career. Previous roles there included Senior Investment Manager on the global equities team as well as the Asian equities team, based in Singapore, where he was lead manager of the Edinburgh Dragon Trust. He began his investment career at SG Warburg & Co in 1988.

Mr Whitley 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. Donegan or Mr Whitley.

11th October 2019

For further information, please contact:

Jonathan Latter

JPMorgan Funds Limited - Company Secretary

Telephone [phone]

 

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