REG - Triple Point Venture - Directorate Change

Triple Point Venture VCTAnnouncement

08/02/2024 14:00

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RNS Number : 5328C  Triple Point Venture VCT PLC  08 February 2024

8 February 2024

 

Triple Point Venture VCT Plc

(the "Company")

DIRECTORATE CHANGES

 

The Board of Directors of Triple Point Venture VCT plc announces that Sam
Smith has been appointed to the Board as an Independent Non-executive
Director, with immediate effect. In addition, Sam has been appointed as Senior
Independent Director and member of the Audit Committee, with effect from the
same date. Following an orderly succession period, Jane Owen, Chair and
Non-Executive Director of the Company, will not stand for re-election at the
Company's AGM expected to be held in July 2024 and will step down following
the conclusion of the AGM. Jamie Brooke will be appointed as Non-Executive
Chair of the Board, immediately following completion of the AGM.

Sam Smith is an entrepreneur with over 25 years' business and capital markets
experience and has specialised in advising small and mid-cap growth companies.
Sam was previously Chief Executive Officer of FinnCap Group PLC which, under
her leadership, has become one of the largest brokers for companies listed on
the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.

Sam is currently a non-executive director of Solid State PLC listed on AIM,
Sumer Group Holdings Ltd a professional services firm supporting SMEs with
accounting and other services, Griffin Markets Limited, an OTC wholesale
European energy trading business and of 55 Redefined Ltd.

 

No further information is required to be disclosed pursuant to Listing Rule
9.6.13R.

 

Jane Owen, Chair of the Company, said:

 

"I am delighted that Jamie Brooke will be my successor as Chair and that Sam
Smith will be joining the Board. I believe that Sam's background, skills and
enthusiasm will serve the Company and shareholders well for what, I trust,
will be an exciting future for the Company."

 

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY, PLEASE CONTACT

  Triple Point Investment Management LLP   Tel: 020 7201 8989

 (Investment Manager)
  Ian McLennan

  Belinda Thomas

 

The Company's LEI is 213800AOOAQA5XQDEA89

 

Further information on the Company can be found on its website

https://www.triplepoint.co.uk/current-vcts/triple-point-venture-vct-plc/s2539/
(https://www.triplepoint.co.uk/current-vcts/triple-point-venture-vct-plc/s2539/)

 

NOTES:

The Company is a Venture Capital Trust incorporated in July 2010 and was
established to fund small and medium sized enterprises. The Investment Manager
is Triple Point Investment Management LLP.

 

 

 

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