REG - Transense Technlgy - AGM Trading Update and Director Appointments

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23/11/2021 07:00

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RNS Number : 1931T  Transense Technologies PLC  23 November 2021

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as it forms part of UK domestic law by virtue of the European Union
(Withdrawal) Act 2018 as amended.

 

 

Transense Technologies plc

("Transense" or the "Company")

 

AGM trading update, Director appointments and

 Investor Event

 

Transense Technologies plc (AIM: TRT), the provider of specialist sensor
systems, is pleased to provide a trading update ahead of its Annual General
Meeting at noon today and to announce the appointment of two executive
directors to the Board of the Company: Nick Hopkins MBA as Chief Operating
Officer, and Ryan Maughan FIMechE MSc as Business Development Director. These
appointments take effect from 1 December 2021.

 

AGM trading update

 

Revenues in the financial year to date are in line with the Board's
expectations and ahead of the level achieved in the equivalent period last
year. Trading results to 31 October 2021 were profitable and cash generative,
with net cash at 31 October 2021 of £1.34m (30 June 2021: £1.05m). The
Board is pleased with overall progress and optimistic about the outlook for
the full year and beyond.

Nick Hopkins - Chief Operating Officer

 

Nick joined Transense in June 2020 as Managing Director of its Surface
Acoustic Wave (SAW) business. Since his appointment, he has overseen all the
commercial and operational activities of the SAW business, including cementing
existing long-term relationships with key customers and suppliers, and
providing leadership to the team. Before joining Transense, Nick had several
years of business experience in the electronics sector using SAW for Test and
Instrumentation, following a military career which included the command of an
Army Air Corps operational helicopter squadron and operational and capability
equipment roles with the Joint Helicopter Command. He now joins the Board of
Transense as Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for the SAW business.

 

Ryan Maughan - Business Development Director

 

Ryan joins the Board as Business Development Director, a part-time executive
role that represents a significant extension of his current activities as a
member of the Company's SAW Commercial Advisory Panel, SAWCAP. He will lead
Transense's business development, commercial and marketing activities for SAW,
reporting to the Board. He will help to develop commercial opportunities in
propulsion systems and complex machine control, where SAW sensor technology
delivers improvements in performance, efficiency, safety and reliability.

 

Ryan is an award-winning engineer and business leader with more than 20 years'
experience in the high-performance, heavy-duty and off-highway automotive
markets. Prominent in the development of power electronics, electric motors
and drives (PEMD) for these demanding applications, he has successfully
founded, scaled and sold three businesses in the electric vehicle space. He is
currently CEO of eTech49 Limited, an advisory business specialising in
disruptive hardware technology in PEMD. In addition, he is Chairman of EV
North, an industry group representing the booming electric vehicle industry in
the north of England, a Board member of the North East Local Enterprise
Partnership and an advisor to a number of corporations.

 

For the purposes of the AIM Rules for Companies, further details of Nick
Hopkins and Ryan Maughan are set out further below.

 

Board structure and governance

 

In the light of these executive appointments, the Board intends to appoint an
additional independent non-executive director to the Board within the next six
months.

 

The Board is, as always, mindful of the need to maintain an appropriate cost
structure for the Company whilst the SAW business is in the commercialisation
phase. Accordingly, the basic fees and salaries of the Board as a whole have
been agreed at levels that continue to be affordable from existing budgets.

 

Investor Meet Company event on Tuesday 23 November 2021 at 2pm

 

As previously announced, Nigel Rogers (Executive Chairman) and Melvyn Segal
(Chief Financial Officer) will host an update for investors after the AGM at
2pm today using the digital platform Investor Meet Company. Nick Hopkins and
Ryan Maughan will be introduced at this event, and available to answer
investor questions.

 

To attend the event, investors can sign up to Investor Meet Company for free
and select to meet Transense Technologies plc via the following link:
https://www.investormeetcompany.com/transense-technologies-plc/register-investor.
Investors who have already registered and selected to meet the Company will
automatically be invited to the event.

 

Questions can be submitted before the event to transense@walbrookpr.com or in
real time during the presentation via the "Ask a Question" function.

 

Executive Chairman, Nigel Rogers, commented:

 

"We are delighted to welcome Nick and Ryan to the Board of Transense. Under
Nick's leadership over this past year, customer and supplier relationships
have been strengthened further, and our engineering capabilities have been
enhanced through key new staff appointments. Ryan has provided invaluable
input to our business development capability through his involvement in
SAWCAP, and we are delighted that he is joining the Board to build on this
early success."

 

Director disclosures

 

The following information is disclosed pursuant to Rule 17 and Schedule Two
paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies:

 

Nicholas St John Hopkins (61 years of age) owns 23 ordinary shares in the
Company (representing 0.00014% of the Company's issued ordinary shares). In
addition, he holds 100,000 options to acquire new ordinary shares in the
Company, exercisable at a price of 62 pence each between 24 June 2023 and 24
June 2030, and he has now been granted a further 25,000 options to acquire new
ordinary shares in the Company, exercisable at nominal value of 10 pence per
share between 22 November 2024 and 22 November 2031, all subject to the
satisfaction of appropriate performance targets.

 

Mr Hopkins is currently a director of Sensaw Limited and during the past five
years has been a director of the following companies:

 

AEL Communications Ltd

Antennares Sarl (France)

Astel Communications Sarl (France)

Communication Technical Services Limited

Hilomast LLC (USA)

Hilomast Ltd

MinnsBalluns Ltd

SMC Solutions LLC (USA)

SMC Spain SL (Spain)

South Midlands Communications Ltd

South Condominium Association, Inc. (USA)

SMC Spain SL (Spain)

 

Ryan Ellis Maughan (42 years of age) owns 5,365 ordinary shares in the Company
(representing 0.033% of the Company's issued ordinary shares). In addition, he
has been granted 50,000 options to acquire new ordinary shares in the Company,
exercisable at nominal value of 10 pence per share between 22 November 2024
and 22 November 2031, subject to the satisfaction of appropriate performance
targets.

 

Mr Maughan is currently a director of eTech49 Limited and during the past five
years has been a director of the following companies:

 

AVID TechnologyGroup Limited

AVID Technology Limited

AVID Innovation Limited

AVID Vehicles (Projects) Limited

AVID Thermal Technology Limited

AVID Electric Vehicles Limited

 

For further information please visit www.transense.com or contact:

 Transense Technologies plc                       Via Walbrook PR

 Nigel Rogers (Executive Chairman)

 Melvyn Segal (CFO)
 Allenby Capital (Nominated Adviser and Broker)   Tel: +44 (0)20 3328 5656

 Jeremy Porter/George Payne (Corporate Finance)

 Tony Quirke (Sales and Corporate Broking)
 Walbrook PR                                      Tel: +44 (0)20 7933 8780

 Tom Cooper/Nick Rome                             Transense@walbrookpr.com

 

Notes to Editors:

Transense is a developer of specialist wireless sensor systems used to
enable real-time data gathering and monitoring.  Products include the
patent protected Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) sensor technology, used to
improve equipment power, performance, reliability and efficiency; iTrack,
Transense's Tyre Pressure Monitoring System, licensed to Bridgestone
Corporation, the world's largest tyre producer, under a ten-year deal in June
2020; and a range of intelligent tyre monitoring equipment under the
Translogik brand. Target sectors include aerospace, automotive (high
performance and off-road) and complex machine control.

The Group's strategy is to maximise shareholder value through the delivery of
sustained revenue growth from all three principal technologies - SAW, iTrack
and Translogik probes - through leveraging excellence in innovation, know-how
in commercialising technologies, industry partnerships and exposure to global
growth markets.

Transense is headquartered in Oxfordshire, UK, and was admitted to trading on
AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange (AIM: TRT), in
1999.  www.transense.com (http://www.transense.com/)

For further information please contact transense@walbrookpr.com
(mailto:transense@walbrookpr.com) .

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