Directorate Change

JPMorgan Japanese Inv. Trust PLC

31 July 2023

 

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT

JPMORGAN JAPANESE INVESTMENT TRUST PLC

APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR

Legal Entity Identifier: 549300JZW3TSSO464R15

Information disclosed in accordance with LR 9.6.11 and LR 9.6.13

The Board of JPMorgan Japanese Investment Trust plc is pleased to announce the appointment of Lord Jonathan Kestenbaum as a non-executive Director of the Company with effect from 1st October 2023.

Lord Kestenbaum has over two decades of private and public markets investing experience across asset classes. He is a non-executive Director of Windmill Hill Asset Management, and an adviser to a range of interests associated with the Rothschild family.

Until 2022, he was the Chief Operating Officer at RIT Capital Partners, the publicly quoted investment trust. In this capacity he served on the Executive Committee of RIT's investment manager, J Rothschild Capital Management. Prior to this, he served as Chief Executive of Five Arrows Limited the private investment vehicle controlled by Lord Rothschild. During that time, he was also a non-executive Director on the Board of Pershing Square Holdings plc. Lord Kestenbaum was previously Chief Executive of NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts).

He was born and spent his early childhood in Japan and has therefore taken an active interest in the country, its companies and markets throughout his professional career

He owns no shares in the Company.

No further information is to be disclosed in respect of paragraphs 9.6.13(2) - (6) of the Listing Rules for Lord Jonathan Kestenbaum.

31st July 2023

For further information, please contact:

Priyanka Vijay Anand

JPMorgan Funds Limited - Company Secretary

Telephone [phone]

 

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