Appointment of Directors

VPC Specialty Lending Invest. PLC

06 June 2024

 

6 June 2024

VPC Specialty Lending Investments PLC

(the "Company")

Appointment of Directors

The Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Nick Campsie and Martin Rigby as non-executive directors of VPC Specialty Lending Investments PLC with effect from 12^th June 2024, following the conclusion of the Company's Annual General Meeting. 

Nick has deep experience of public and private asset investment, both as an investment manager and manager of managers. As global head of illiquid investments for Eton Park Capital Management he was responsible for the winding down of a significant portfolio of private assets between 2012 and 2019. He also serves as the Chairman of the Legal Aid Agency, is a non-executive director of HM Prisons and Probation Service and is an Independent Member of the London Policing Board.

Martin has over 35 years' experience as a venture investor and has been involved in the realisation of the assets of 14 funds. His experience of backing growth technology businesses includes Bango, the UK listed digital payments business (AIM: BGO) which operates in the US and other global markets and where he was a non-executive director for 12 years, stepping down in 2019. He has invested in both fintech and e-commerce businesses giving him domain knowledge of the business environment in which many of the Company's portfolio companies operate. He is Chair of the FSE Group, a UK-based provider of equity and debt funding to high growth businesses, and managing director of ET Capital, a venture fund manager based in Cambridge, both roles requiring oversight of investment management teams.

Martin and Nick will both serve as members of the Company's Audit and Valuation and Management Engagement Committees. They do not currently have any interest in the ordinary shares of the Company. 

Martin was an executive director of Psonar Limited which was subject to a creditors voluntary liquidation on 9 August 2017. There is no other information required to be disclosed under Listing Rule 9.6.13R in respect of Martin or Nick.

Enquiries

For further information, please contact:

Victory Park Capital Gordon Watson Sora Monachino	via Jefferies or Winterflood (below) [e-mail]
Jefferies International Limited	Tel: [phone]
Stuart Klein Gaudi le Roux
Winterflood Securities Limited	Tel: [phone]
Joe Winkley
Neil Morgan
Montfort Communications	[phone] /[phone]
Matthew Jervois/ Gay Collins	[e-mail]
Link Company Matters Limited (Company Secretary)	Tel: [phone] Email: [e-mail]

About VPC Specialty Lending Investments PLC

VPC Specialty Lending Investments PLC (Company No. 9385218) is a UK listed investment trust focused on asset-backed lending to emerging and established businesses with the goal of building long-term, sustainable income generation. The Company identifies investment opportunities across various industries and geographies to offer shareholders access to a diversified portfolio of opportunistic credit investments originated by non-bank lenders with a focus on the rapidly developing technology-enabled lending sector.

Further information on VPC Specialty Lending Investments PLC is available at: http://vpcspecialtylending.com.

LEI: 549300UPEXC5DQB81P34

 

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