Result of AGM & Board Appointment

RNS Number : 4977P

Zytronic PLC

09 February 2023

 

9 February 2023

Zytronic plc

("Zytronic" or the "Company" and together with its subsidiary, the "Group")

Result of AGM & Board Appointment

The Directors of Zytronic plc are pleased to announce that at the AGM held on 9 February 2023, all resolutions put before shareholders were duly passed.

A summary of votes passed at the meeting will be made available shortly on the Company's website   www.zytronicplc.com .

Board Appointment

Further to the Company's announcement earlier today, the Board of Zytronic is pleased to confirm that John Walter will be appointed as Non-executive Director, effective 10 February 2023. As previously announced, John's appointment will be for a fixed-term period, concluding no later than the day prior to the posting of the notice to shareholders of the 2024 AGM.

John is a former investment banker and wealth manager with over 25 years' investment experience in the public markets, having worked at both NatWest Markets and Chase Manhattan Bank before setting up Metis Asset Management. 

Mark Cambridge, Chief Executive Officer, said:

"We are pleased to temporarily welcome John to the Board, to afford the Company with a better balance of Non-executive impartiality, after the sudden ill-health departure of David Buffham at the start of this fiscal year, whilst we conduct and complete the recruitment of further Independent Non-executive Directors with commercial skill-sets appropriate to the strategy of the business."

The following disclosures are required regarding John Antony Christian Walter's (aged 57) appointment pursuant to Schedule Two paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies ("AIM Rules"):

· John Walter, together with his connected persons, own 552,500 ordinary shares in the Company (split 515,000 ordinary shares in his own name and 37,500 via his connected persons).

· John Walter holds no current directorships or partnerships and has not previously been a director or partner in the last 5 years.

Save as set out above, there is no further information to be disclosed in respect of John Walter under Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules.

Enquiries: Zytronic plc Mark Cambridge, Chief Executive Officer Claire Smith, Group Finance Director 0191 414 5511 Singer Capital Markets Nominated Adviser and Broker Aubrey Powell, Alex Bond, Alex Emslie 020 7496 3000   About Zytronic Zytronic is a world-renowned developer and manufacturer of a unique range of internationally award-winning, optically transparent, interactive touch sensor overlay products for use with electronic displays in industrial, self-service and public access equipment. Zytronic's products employ a sensing solution that is readily configurable and embedded in a laminate core that offers significant durability, environmental stability and optical enhancement benefits to meet systems-specific design requirements. Zytronic has continually developed process and technological know-how and IP since the late 1990s around two sensing methodologies: the first being single touch self-capacitive, which Zytronic markets as PCT™ ("Projected Capacitive Technology"), and the second being multi-touch, multi-user mutual-capacitive which Zytronic markets as MPCT™ ("Mutual Projected Capacitive Technology"), in which Zytronic holds 12 internationally granted patents. Zytronic operates from a single site near Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the United Kingdom, providing its manufactured products globally through a number of sales channel partners. Zytronic is relatively unique in the touch eco-system as it offers a complete one-stop solution including the processing internally of the form and factor of the glass and film substrates, the assembly of the associated touch overlay products in environmentally controlled cleanrooms to customers' specific requirements, and the development of the bespoke firmware, software and electronic hardware which links the manufactured touch interactive overlays to a customer's integrated system and product. For more information about the Group's technologies and products, please see  www.zytronic.co.uk  and for information about the Group, please see  www.zytronicplc.com .

 

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