Appointment of Director

RNS Number : 8127U

Zegona Communications PLC

03 August 2015

 

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3 August 2015

Zegona Communications plc

("Zegona" or the "Company")

Appointment of Director

The Board of Zegona is pleased to announce the appointment of Murray Scott (52) as independent non-executive director. Mr Scott will be responsible, along with the other Directors, for the overall management and control of the Company, and will participate in the Directors' review of the operations of the Company at regular meetings. He will contribute experience of the telecommunications market that will be key to the successful execution of the Company's strategy.

He is a Chartered Accountant and  has acted as chief financial officer of the UK and Global Products sub-division of BT Global Services (a provider of IT services to large multi-nationals). Mr Scott also acted as the finance representative on the Portfolio Board, tasked with optimising the performance of the Global Services division. During his time with BT Global Services, he also acted in two further roles; as head of finance to the Converged Services division and as chief financial officer of the Enterprise division.  His prior experience in the data and telecommunications sector includes acting as finance director EMEA for Equant NV (a data network provider to large multinationals) and as group financial controller for Interoute Telecommunications plc, managing the global finance function.

A supplementary admission document will be posted to shareholders today regarding Murray Scott's appointment. It will also be made available on the Company's website at www.zegona.com

Enquiries

Tavistock (Public Relations Adviser)

Tel: [phone]

Matt Ridsdale / Lulu Bridges / Mike Bartlett

Cenkos Securities plc (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)

Tel: [phone]

Ian Soanes / Elizabeth Bowman

Other than as disclosed below, there are no further disclosures to be made in accordance with paragraph (g) of Schedule Two of the AIM rules for Companies:

Murray Scott is a Director of Muzman Limited and Chalfont Park Sports Association Limited.  Additionally:

(a)  Murray Scott was a director of Muzman Ltd, which was voluntarily struck off of the register on 20 January 2009 while he remained a director.

(b)  Murray Scott was a director of Interoute Networks Limited until 5 February 2003.  Edwards NG was appointed as an administrative receiver of Interoute Networks Limited on 18 November 2002.

(c)   Murray Scott resigned as a director of Interoute Telecom Deutschland GmbH on 12 December 2002 upon its sale when it changed its name to Wavecrest Communications Deutschland GmbH.  On 29 January 2003, the company was put into insolvent administration and on 12 March 2003 it was dissolved.

This announcement does not constitute an admission document or supplementary admission document relating to the Company and does not constitute, or form part of, any offer or invitation to sell or issue, or any solicitation of any offer to purchase or subscribe for, any shares in the Company in any jurisdiction nor shall it, or any part of it, or the fact of its distribution, form the basis of, or be relied on in connection with or act as any inducement to enter into, any contract therefore.

Recipients of this announcement who are considering acquiring shares are reminded that any such acquisition must be made only on the basis of the information contained in the admission document dated 27 July 2015 as amended by the supplementary admission document dated today which may be different from the information contained in this announcement.

Neither the content of the Company's website, nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on its website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement nor, unless previously published by means of a recognised information service, should any such content be relied upon in reaching a decision as to whether or not to acquire, continue to hold, or dispose of, securities in the Company. 

 

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