REG - F&C Investment Trust - Directorate Change

F&C Investment TrustAnnouncement

10/03/2020 13:25

RNS Number : 6303F
  
F&C Investment Trust PLC
  
10 March 2020
  
 

F&C Investment Trust PLC
Appointment of a Director
 
 
The Board of F&C Investment Trust PLC is pleased to announce the appointment of Quintin Price as an independent non-executive Director with effect from 10 March 2020.
 
Quintin is a senior adviser at Actis, a privately-owned private equity, real estate and energy & infrastructure company. He is also a non-executive director of Aperture Investors, a New York based fund manager and is on the Investment Committee of the Leverhulme Trust which is a large national grant-making organisation that supports scholarships for the purposes of research and education.
 
From 2005 to 2015 he was at BlackRock where he was global head of alpha strategies and a member of the global executive committee.
 
Commenting on the appointment, Beatrice Hollond, Chairman, said:
 
"Quintin brings investment banking and investment management knowledge and expertise to the Board from a 30 year career working at a senior level for a number of leading companies and we are delighted that he is joining the Board of F&C Investment Trust PLC."
 
Other than a previous non-executive directorship at Polar Capital Holdings plc, no further information is required to be disclosed under Listing Rule 9.6.13 in respect of this appointment.   
 
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Enquiries to:
 
 
Hugh Potter, BMO Investment Business Limited
 
Telephone No: 020 7011 5183
 


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