REG - Monks Inv.Trust - Appointment of Directors

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RNS Number : 1595E  Monks Investment Trust PLC  22 February 2024

The Monks Investment Trust PLC (MNKS)

Appointment of Directors

 

The Board of The Monks Investment Trust PLC ('the Company') is pleased to
announce the appointments of Randeep Singh Grewal and Stacey Parrinder-Johnson
as non-executive Directors of the Company, both with effect from 1 March
2024.

 

Randeep Singh Grewal has been chairman of BB Healthcare Trust plc since July
2019, having served as a non-executive director on that board since December
2016. He is also a non-executive director of the Global Smaller Companies
Trust plc. Having read Medicine and Computer Science at Jesus College,
Cambridge, he trained as a vascular surgeon before transferring his skills in
healthcare and technology to working as an analyst and portfolio manager with
Tudor Capital in 1998. He was a senior portfolio manager at F&C Asset
Management with responsibility for Thames River European Absolute Return Fund
from 2010 to 2012 and portfolio manager of Trium Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund and
senior portfolio manager of Trium Opportunity Equity Fund from 2015 to 2019.
Since then, he has been closely involved with healthcare and technology
businesses in various capacities, with a particular focus on start-ups and
early-stage private companies.

 

Stacey Parrinder-Johnson was, until September 2023, chief investment officer
of Investec Wealth & Investment UK, where she was also a member of the
executive management committee, chair of the investment committee, and a
member of the executive risk management committee. Stacey brings twenty years
of experience in asset selection, portfolio management, and manager analysis
across UK and international mandates, and has particular strength in
investment trust governance, sustainability and risk issues. She has
previously served as a pension trustee and has been a governor of the
University of Portsmouth since November 2023.

 

She owns 3,250 shares in the Company as at the date of this announcement.

 

The Chairman of Monks, Karl Sternberg, said: "I am pleased that we have been
able to secure two Directors with such high-quality, relevant investment
industry experience to join our Board, with particular regard to adding new
perspectives, and to ensure that a good succession plan is in place as
Directors retire."

 

The appointments of Randeep Singh Grewal and Stacey Parrinder-Johnson are
subject to ratification by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting of the
Company to be held in 2024.

 

There is no further information required to be disclosed under Listing Rule
9.6.13.

 

Baillie Gifford & Co Limited

Managers and Secretaries

22 February 2024

 

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