Directorate Change

RNS Number : 0523L

Jupiter Fund Management PLC

01 July 2014

 



Jupiter Fund Management plc ("the Company")

1^st July 2014

Directorate Change

Appointment of Jonathon Bond as a Non-executive Director

Further to the announcement made on 6^th May 2014 the Company announces that Jonathon Bond has today been appointed to the Board.

Jonathon Bond has confirmed that there is no information to be disclosed pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.13R

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For Further Information please contact:

                                                          Investors                                   Media

Jupiter                                          Adrian Creedy                            Alicia Wyllie

                                                [phone]                  [phone]

FTI Consulting                             Laura Ewart                                 Andrew Walton

                                                    [phone]                [phone]                        

Notes:

Jonathon Bond is the Executive Chairman of the Skagen Group based in London, a family-owned group of companies operating in Europe, the Middle East and the USA.  This includes green cleaning specialists Ecover and Method among its portfolio.  Prior to joining the Skagen Group, Jonathon spent 25 years in the private equity industry with a particular focus on raising standards of governance and performance. He was a Founding Partner of Actis LLP, the emerging markets specialist alternatives fund management, where he spent over ten years. During that time he was a member of the Supervisory Board, Investment and the Executive Committees as well as setting up and running the in-house fund raising team that raised over $7billion for investment from 2004 - 2013.  Jonathon was a non-executive director on the board of Celtel for a number of years, the first pan-African mobile company in Africa, prior to its 2005 sale to MTC of Kuwait. Jonathon previously worked as a founding Director of HSBC Private Equity in India (1994-2000), Electra Private Equity Partners in London and Paris (1988-1994) and Bain & Co in London (1985-1988). He has an MA in Law from the University of Oxford.

 

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