Brave Bison Group PLC Directorate Change (7675R)

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Brave Bison Group PLC

11 July 2022

11 July 2022

Brave Bison Group plc

("Brave Bison" or the "Company")

Appointment of Independent Non-Executive Director

Brave Bison, the social and digital media company, is pleased to announce that Gordon Brough will join the Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director with immediate effect.

Gordon was, until recently, General Counsel at CQS, the specialist asset manager with over $20bn of assets under management. Prior to CQS, Gordon was General Counsel at Aberdeen Asset Management plc (later Aberdeen Standard Investments, now the asset management arm of Abrdn) for almost 10 years. Mr Brough holds an LLB (Hons) and a Diploma in Legal Practice from the University of Dundee.

Gordon brings to the Board a wealth of experience in both the corporate and M&A spheres, as well governance, legal and compliance.

In addition to being appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company, Gordon will chair the Audit and ESG Committees and will join the Remuneration Committee.

Gordon Brough holds 587,371 Ordinary Shares in the Company, representing 0.05 per cent. of the Company's issued ordinary share capital.

Oliver Green, Chairman, said:

"This appointment underscores the Board's commitment to ensuring growth is achieved in a thoughtful and measured way and in line with modern standards of governance. Gordon's extensive experience will bring great value to the business and I look forward to working with him."

I n addition to his appointment to Brave Bison, Gordon Haig Brough, aged 62, is currently or has previously been a director or partner of the following companies or partnerships within the past five years:

 
 Current                            Former 
 PFD Agency Holdings Limited        CQS (UK) LLP 
                                   ----------------------------- 
 The Golden Charter Trust Limited   EPI 1 S.à r.l 
                                   ----------------------------- 
                                    EPI II S.a.r.l 
                                   ----------------------------- 
                                    Harverdale Limited 
                                   ----------------------------- 
                                    Georges Simenon Limited 
                                   ----------------------------- 
                                    Worldwrites Holdings Limited 
                                   ----------------------------- 
 

For further information please contact:

Brave Bison Group plc

Oliver Green, Executive Chairman via Cenkos

Theo Green, Chief Growth Officer

Philippa Norridge, Chief Financial Officer

Cenkos Securities plc Tel: [phone]

Nominated Adviser & Broker

Nicholas Wells

Ben Jeynes

About Brave Bison

Brave Bison (AIM: BBSN) is a social and digital media company, headquartered in London with a globally distributed workforce across eight countries.

Brave Bison is unique in that it is both a digital media owner, as well as a digital media agency. The Company owns and operates its own channels, and the communities attached to them, as well as offering customers a suite of advertising services to help reach digital audiences.

Brave Bison has two core lines of business. Firstly, the publishing of content on social media channels to generate advertising revenue. Brave Bison operates over 650 channels including PGA Tour and US Open on YouTube, Cooking Wild and DIY & Crafts on Facebook and Slick and VSatisfying on Snap Discover.

The second line of business involves the execution of social and digital advertising campaigns for global, blue-chip brands such as Panasonic, New Balance, Primark, Vodafone and Samsung.

The Company operates through three divisions: Brave Bison Social & Influencer, a social advertising practice, Brave Bison Commerce, a digital commerce practice, and Brave Bison Performance, a paid and organic digital media practice.

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