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RNS Number : 7746E  Bridgepoint Group plc  14 April 2025

Bridgepoint Group plc
("Bridgepoint" or the "Company")

 

Appointment of John Dionne and Michelle Scrimgeour as Independent
Non-Executive Directors

 

14 April 2025

 

Bridgepoint is pleased to announce the appointment of John Dionne and Michelle
Scrimgeour as independent non-executive directors with effect from 1 July
2025.

 

Until he retired as a Senior Managing Director of Blackstone, John served as
Global Head of the Private Equity Business Development and Investor Relations
groups.  He first joined Blackstone as the Founder and Chief Investment
Officer of the Blackstone Distressed Securities Fund.  Earlier in his career,
John was a Partner and Portfolio Manager for Bennett Restructuring Funds, a
Partner at Saugatuck Capital and a Director of Corporate Development for a
predecessor of Thermo Fisher Scientific.  He began his career at Price
Waterhouse as a public accountant.

 

He is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business
School.

 

Michelle served as Chief Executive Officer of Legal & General Investment
Management from July 2019 to December 2024.  Before joining Legal &
General, Michelle was Chief Executive Officer, EMEA, at Columbia Threadneedle
Investments and was a member of the Executive Leadership Team of Ameriprise
Financial.  Earlier in her career she was Chief Risk Officer at M&G
Investments and a Director of M&G Group Limited, which she joined in 2012
after a successful career at BlackRock. Michelle has served as Deputy Chair of
the Investment Association, Chair of the Technology Working Group of the UK
Government's Asset Management Taskforce and was a member of the FCA's
Practitioner Panel.

 

On appointment, Michelle will become the Chair of the Audit and Risk
Committee, and John will become a member of the Audit and Risk Committee.

 

Commenting on the appointments, Tim Score, Chair, said:

 

"I am delighted to welcome John and Michelle to the Board.  Following a
thorough appointment process, we are excited to have found two great
candidates with extensive experience in asset management.  Their respective
experiences will be invaluable to the Bridgepoint Group as it continues to
implement the strategy outlined at the Capital Markets Day in October
2024."

 

 

ENQUIRIES

 

Bridgepoint

 

 Analysts and investors                                                 Media

 Adam Key                                                               Christian Jones

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                                                                      (mailto:Christian.Jones@bridgepointgroup.com)
 +44 7833 748010

                                                                      +44 20 7034 3500

 

Finsbury Glover Hering (Public Relations Adviser to Bridgepoint)

 

James Murgatroyd / +44 20 7251 3801 / +44 7768 254 911

Anjali Unnikrishnan / +44 20 7251 3801 / +44 7826 534 233

Anna Tabor / +44 20 7251 3801 / +44 7584 593 926

Bridgepoint-LON@fgsglobal.com (mailto:Bridgepoint-LON@fgsglobal.com)

 

The following information is disclosed in accordance with UKLR 6.4.8 in
respect of John Dionne and Michelle Scrimgeour:

 

Further information relating to John Dionne

 

Current publicly quoted company directorships

 

 •    Cengage Learning Holdings II, Inc.
 •    Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.

 

Previous publicly quoted company directorships

 

 •    Caesars Entertainment Corporation
 •    Momentive Performance Materials, Inc.
 •    Pelmorex Media, Inc.
 •    Sequential Brands Group, Inc. (filed for bankruptcy protection on 31 August
      2021)

 

Additional roles

 

Through John Dionne's activities as an institutionally-backed investor in the
securities of companies in or near bankruptcy, he has held directorships in
certain companies shortly before bankruptcy, or after its commencement.  In
addition to his directorship of Sequential Brands Group, Inc prior to its
bankruptcy, as referred to above, he was appointed as a director of Crown
Finance, US Inc and 65 of its subsidiaries following their filing for
bankruptcy protection.

 

Further information relating to Michelle Scrimgeour

 

Michelle Scrimgeour was previously a director of Legal & General Group
plc.

 

 

There are no other disclosures to make pursuant to UKLR 6.4.8 in respect of
either John Dionne or Michelle Scrimgeour.

 

Issued by Bridgepoint Group plc

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