Appointment of New Directors
27/03/2024 13:06
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RNS Number : 5557I STS Global Income & Growth Trust 27 March 2024
To: RNS
From: STS Global Income & Growth
Trust plc
LEI: 549300UZ1Y7PPQYJGE19
Date: 27 March 2024
STS Global Income & Growth Trust plc (the "Company")
Appointment of new Directors
The Board is pleased to announce, that further to the approval of the proposed
scheme of reconstruction of Troy Income & Growth Trust plc ("TIGT") and
the combination with the Company, the appointment of Bridget Guerin and Brigid
Sutcliffe as Non-Executive Directors of the Company will take effect from 28
March 2024.
Bridget Guerin was Chair of TIGT since January 2023. She has over 30 years of
experience in the financial services industry and has longstanding experience
of sitting on the boards of investment/wealth management companies and funds,
including London listed investment trusts. She is currently a non-executive
director of Mobeus Income & Growth VCT plc and is the chair of Invesco
Perpetual UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc, and has previously been
on the board of Charles Stanley PLC and also held the position of chair of
Schroder Income Growth Fund plc. Bridget has extensive knowledge of the
distribution of investment products to the institutional and retail markets.
Bridget has a detailed knowledge of the wealth management industry, financial
advisory services and retail fund platforms. She has held senior positions as
marketing director at Ivory & Sime plc and Schroder Investments Limited
and was managing director of Matrix Money Management Limited. She is also
chair of York Racecourse Limited and trustee of the York Racecourse Pension
Fund.
Brigid Sutcliffe was appointed to the TIGT Board in August 2021 and became
chair of the TIGT audit committee in January 2022. She is the audit chair and
non-executive director of Strategic Equity Capital plc and will assume the
role of non-executive director of Northern Venture Trust plc with effect from
2 April 2024. She is also a member of the finance committee of Newnham
College, Cambridge and a trustee of Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland. Brigid holds an MA in Economics from Cambridge
University and an MBA from London Business School. She qualified as a
chartered accountant with KPMG LLP in 1983 and spent thirty years working in
investment banking and as a strategic change management consultant, advising
companies across a wide range of sectors. Brigid has been a non-executive
director for a variety of organisations in the public, private and third
sectors over the past 19 years and has extensive audit committee chair
experience.
Both Directors have resigned from the TIGT Board with effect from 28 March
2024 following the approval of the proposals.
There are no other details or disclosures required under LR 9.6.13R of the
Financial Conduct Authority Listing Rules in respect of these appointments.
Juniper Partners Limited
Company Secretary
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