Directorate Change

RNS Number : 5653J

Monks Investment Trust PLC

14 April 2020

 

The Monks Investment Trust PLC

Appointment of Director

The Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Claire Boyle as a non-executive Director of the Company with effect from 1 May 2020.

Ms Boyle has over seventeen years' experience working in financial services and investment management. Having qualified as a chartered accountant with Coopers & Lybrand, where she specialised in litigation support and forensic accounting, Ms Boyle then spent thirteen years working in equity investment management for: Robert Fleming Investment Management; American Express Asset Management; and latterly Oxburgh Partners LLP, where she was a partner with responsibility for their European Equity Hedge Fund. She is a non-executive director and chair of the audit committee of Aberdeen Japan Investment Trust PLC and a non-executive director and chair of the audit committee of Fidelity Special Values Plc.

The Chairman of Monks, James Ferguson, said: "I am delighted that Ms Boyle has agreed to bring her financial and investment experience to our Board."

The appointment of Ms Boyle is subject to ratification by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in 2020.

There is no further information required to be disclosed under Listing Rule 9.6.13.

Baillie Gifford & Co Limited

Managers and Secretaries

14 April 2020

Legal Entity Identifier: 213800MRI1JTUKG5AF64

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