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RNS Number : 7735H  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 0207 742 4000

 

 

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