Directorate Change

RNS Number : 0557J

GETECH Group plc

01 August 2012

 



GETECH Group plc

("GETECH" or the "Company")

Board Changes

GETECH, the oil services business specialising in the provision of exploration data and petroleum systems studies and evaluations, announces that Ian Somerton has confirmed his intention to resign as Marketing Director and that Professor Paul Francis Carey will be appointed as Marketing and Sales Director, both with immediate effect.

Paul Francis Carey, aged 45, is currently a director of International Sales at GETECH, having joined the Company in 2011. He is not, and has not been in the last five years, a director or partner of any other company or partnership, nor does he hold any shares in the Company.

Stuart Paton, GETECH's Chairman commented "We would like to express our thanks to Ian Somerton, who has made a major contribution as a director and employee of the Company since he joined GETECH in 1994. We are also very pleased that Paul Carey has accepted our invitation to join the board of the Company as Marketing and Sales Director. He brings a wealth of commercial and technical experience and has already made a major contribution since he joined us full time in May 2011. The Company is going through a step change in its activities and we are all delighted both that Paul is joining the board and that Ian intends to remain with the company."

There is no further information required to be disclosed in accordance with Rule 17 and Schedule 2, paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

For further information, please contact:

GETECH Group plc Raymond Wolfson, Chief Executive		Tel:  [phone]
WH Ireland Limited Katy Mitchell		Tel:  [phone]
Walbrook PR Helen Westaway		Tel:  [phone]

 

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