Brainspark PLC
22 July 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 22 July 2005
BRAINSPARK PLC
Passing of resolutions at AGM, new director and undertakings to invest up to
£305,000 in convertible stock due 2006
AGM
Brainspark announces that all the resolutions put to members at the 2005 Annual
General Meeting on 22 July were passed.
NEW DIRECTOR
Immediately following the AGM, Mr. Alfredo Villa was invited to join the Board.
Mr. Villa, 44, has had a distinguished banking career in Switzerland and Italy.
He is presently based in Italy, where he is a board member and partner of
Gabbrielli & Associati, a financial consulting company based in Milan, and
Mediapolis SpA, an Italian based real estate company. Mr. Villa is also on the
Board of Oranco Inc., a NASDAQ OTC listed company.
Mr. Villa joins as a non-executive director. At present, no non-executive
director receives fees from the Company.
The information relating to Mr. Villa required under Rule 17 of the AIM Rules
and paragraph (f) of Schedule Two of those Rules is shown in the Schedule below
LOAN STOCK
The Company's Chairman, Professor Francesco Gardin, Mr. Villa, Luigi Fogliani (a
relative of Professor Gardin's wife) and certain others not connected with any
of them (the 'Investors') have agreed to invest up to £305,000 in interest free
convertible loan stock due 2006 (the 'Loan Stock'). The Loan Stock is
convertible at the option of the holder or the Company at the mean mid market
price for the ordinary shares of one penny each for the business days between 24
June 2005 (the date upon which the Investors first expressed interest in
investing) and 15 August 2005 (being a date sufficiently in the future to allow
the market to digest this announcement. If not converted by either holder or the
Company, the Loan Stock will be repaid by the Company on 31 March 2006. To the
extent that Investors have not already done so, funds will be provided to the
Company by 15 August 2005.
The funds raised by the issue of the Loan Stock will be used to meet the ongoing
working capital requirements of the Company and its investees.
AIM RULE 13
The Directors, other than Messrs Gardin and Villa, having consulted with the
Company's nominated adviser believe the terms of the Loan Stock are fair and
reasonable insofar as the shareholders are concerned.
Further information
Francesco Gardin, Brainspark PLC 00 39 0228 0141
Roland Cornish, Beaumont Cornish Limited 020 7628 3396
SCHEDULE
AIM Rule 17 Information
Full name Alfredo Maria Villa
Date of birth 25 May 1961
Present directorships Gabbrielli & Associates
Mediapolis SpA
Oranco Inc.
Past directorships Givigest Fiduciaria SA
SCF SA
Unspent convictions None
Bankruptcies/IVAs None
Receiverships etc None
Liquidations None
Receiverships None
Public criticisms None
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