Directorate Change

RNS Number : 5305H

Pacific Horizon Investment Tst PLC

25 March 2020

 

Pacific Horizon Investment Trust PLC

Legal Entity Identifier: VLGEI9B8R0REWKB0LN95

Regulated Information Classification Additional regulated information required to be disclosed under applicable law.

Appointment of Director

The Company is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Wee-Li Hee as a non-executive Director of Pacific Horizon Investment Trust PLC, effective as of 1 June 2020.

Ms Hee is an experienced Asian analyst and fund manager. Brought up in Singapore, she speaks fluent Mandarin and studied in the UK at the University of Leeds and the London School of Economics and Political Science. After graduation, in 2002 she joined First State Investments in Singapore as an analyst, subsequently moving to the firm's Edinburgh office in 2005. Having co-managed Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust plc she became lead manager in 2014, stepping back as a result of family commitments to return to a co-manager role in 2017 and retiring at the end of 2019. She is a CFA Charterholder.

The appointment of Ms Hee remains to be ratified by Shareholders at the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in 2020.

There is no other information required to be disclosed under section 9.6.13 of the Listing Rules in respect of Ms Hee.

 Baillie Gifford & Co Limited

Managers and Secretaries

25 March 2020

 

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