Baillie GiffordJapan - Directorate Change
16/06/2023 13:59
For best results when printing this announcement, please click on link below: http://newsfile.refinitiv.com/getnewsfile/v1/story?guid=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20230616:nRSP0438Da&default-theme=true RNS Number : 0438D Baillie Gifford Japan Trust PLC 16 June 2023 The Baillie Gifford Japan Trust PLC Appointment of Director The Board is delighted to announce the appointment of Patricia Lewis as a non-executive Director of the Company with effect from 1 August 2023. Patricia is a financial services executive with 25 years experience advising clients in global capital markets, investment management, risk management, marketing strategy and investor relations with responsibility for business growth and profitability. Her experience was garnered over her investment banking career at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in corporate finance and capital markets, most recently as Managing Director and Head of EMEA Loans and Special Situations Sales. Currently, she is a non-executive director of Snowball Impact Management Limited and a member of their Impact Investment Committee. There is no further information required to be disclosed under Listing Rule 9.6.13. The appointment of Ms Lewis falls to be ratified by Shareholders at the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in December 2023. Baillie Gifford & Co Limited Managers and Secretaries 16 June 2023 This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact rns@lseg.com (mailto:rns@lseg.com) or visit www.rns.com (http://www.rns.com/) . RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy (https://www.lseg.com/privacy-and-cookie-policy) . END BOAGPUQAQUPWGPQ