Dev Clever Holdings PLC Directorate Change (9072N)

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RNS Number : 9072N

Dev Clever Holdings PLC

26 May 2020

Dev Clever Holdings plc

("Dev Clever" or "the Company")

Board and Senior Management Appointments

Dev Clever (DEV), a leading developer of mobile and immersive experiences, is pleased to announce that Tim Heaton, the Company's Chief Operating Officer, is appointed to the Company's Board of Directors with immediate effect.

Mr. Heaton was previously the Business Development Director for EMEA at Oracle and joined the Company on 1 October 2019 to develop and lead the accelerated global commercialisation of the Company's software. Specifically, Mr. Heaton has focused on the implementation of Dev Clever's strategy to provide its educational careers guidance software applications as a joint proposition with a global hardware manufacturer. This culminated in the recently announced three-year exclusive worldwide partnership contract with Lenovo Group Limited.

The Board will benefit from Mr. Heaton's extensive experience in providing SaaS (software as a service) based products via a global channel sales network as well as his broad commercial acumen in delivering value added sales.

Mr Heaton will be appointed as an executive director. There is no additional information required under Listing Rule 9.6.13.

In addition, the Board is pleased to announce that, Keith Hayes joined Dev Clever as Head of Governance Risk and Compliance. Keith has extensive industry experience of leading global infrastructure, data and security teams for many blue chip commercial organisations including IBM, Dixons Carphone and Siemens Communications. During his career, he has made key contributions to data privacy and protection policies for both central and local government, regulatory bodies and think tanks. In his new role, Keith will focus on ensuring Dev Clever's software applications incorporate the highest standards of data governance and security.

Chris Jeffries, CEO Dev Clever, commented:

"I am delighted to welcome Tim to the Board. As COO he has made a significant contribution to the commercialisation of the Company's products and the Board looks forward to working with him as we continue to execute on our stated strategy.

"Equally, I am pleased to welcome Keith to Dev Clever as Head of Governance Risk and Compliance He will be using his extensive industry knowledge to set new standards in the way young people are introduced to and understand personal data protection. Helping young adults and children protect their digital presence and reputation is as important as the educational tools and platforms we offer and this role will be key in making sure all our students' (and other users') information is used appropriately and correctly."

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Dev Clever Holdings plc 
 Christopher Jeffries 
 Chief Executive Officer and 
 Executive Chairman 
 
 Nicholas Ydlibi 
 Chief Financial Officer             [phone] 
 
 
  Novum Securities Limited - Joint 
  Broker 
  & Financial Adviser 
  Colin Rowbury 
  David Coffman                        [phone] 
 
Pello Capital - Joint Broker 
 Daniel Gee                          [phone] 
 
Buchanan Communications 
 Richard Oldworth / Chris Lane       [phone] 
 

Notes to Editors

Dev Clever Holdings plc, together with its wholly owned subsidiary Dev Clever Limited, is a software and technology group based in Tamworth, United Kingdom, specialising in the use of lightweight integrations of cloud-based gamification and VR technologies to deliver rich customer engagement experiences across both the commercial and education sectors. The Group's core focus is the development and commercialisation of its three core platforms:

Educate

Careers guidance and recruitment solution that offers secondary schools, colleges, universities, apprenticeship providers and employers with a range of digital products to more efficiently recruit and develop applicants and skills within their institutions and organisations.

Within Agency Services:

Engage: cloud-based gamification solution s that offers brands and retailers a range of products to drive higher levels of consumer engagement via the use of digitally redeemable incentives at the same time as fully controlling spend.

Experience: multi-user virtual reality (VR) framework and augmented reality framework that enables customers of our Engage and Educate channels to extend their customer and student experiences through VR.

In January 2019, Dev Clever listed on the Standard List of the London Stock Exchange.

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