THE MERCANTILE INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
(the 'Company')
APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR
Legal Entity Identifier: 549300BGX3CJIHLP2H42
Information disclosed in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.11 (1)
The Board of The Mercantile Investment Trust plc is pleased to announce the appointment of Julia Goh as a Non-Executive Director of the Company with effect from 1st January 2023.
Ms Goh has 27 years of broad-based financial services experience in London. She was a Managing Director at Barclays Investment Bank from 2010-2018 in various senior front office positions including from 2017 the COO of Global Markets. She was a Managing Director and the Global Head of Prime Services Risk at Credit Suisse from 1998-2009. Prior to that, she was a risk manager at Nomura International.
She is a currently a non-executive director of Schroder AsiaPacific Fund plc and Pension Insurance Corporation plc and also of its parent company, Pension Insurance Corporation Group. She is also a director of the charity, Children of the Mekong and a board advisor to the Handbag Clinic.
A Singaporean, she came to London in 1987 for her BSc at the London School of Economics and Political Science, followed by five years with PricewaterhouseCoopers in corporate tax getting her ACA, before obtaining her MSc in Quantitative Finance.
Ms Goh 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 Ms Goh.
14th December 2022
For further information, please contact:
Alison Vincent
JPMorgan Funds Limited - Company Secretary
Telephone 0207 742 4000