Directorate Change

 

TIDMNEO 
 
RNS Number : 9016R 
Neovia Financial PLC 
01 September 2010 
 

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                              NEOVIA Financial Plc 
 
                               Board Appointments 
 
     Ian Francis joins the NEOVIA Financial Board as Non-Executive Director 
 
 
Wednesday 1 September 2010 - NEOVIA Financial Plc (LSE: NEO), the leading 
alternative payments business, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ian 
Raymond Francis to the Board as Non-Executive Director with effect from 1 
September 2010.  It is intended that he will be appointed as chairman of the 
Audit Committee of the Company shortly thereafter. 
 
Mr. Francis was most recently a senior audit partner and member in the London 
practice of Ernst & Young where he was responsible for a number of the firm's 
leading audit clients.  He has a number of non-executive directorships including 
Umeme Limited, the privatised national power distribution company of Uganda. 
 
Dale Johnson, Chairman, said 
"The Board and I are very pleased that Ian will be joining the NEOVIA Board as a 
non-executive director.  With the substantial breadth and depth of his relevant 
experience, especially in audit and risk management, he will be a welcome and 
strong contributor to the Board." 
 
The Company also announces that Tracy Reeder stepped down from the role of 
Company Secretary on Monday 9 August, and that Elaine Swain assumed the role 
with effect from 10 August 2010. 
 
 
For further information contact: 
 
Andrew Gilchrist 
                + 44 (0) 1624 698 713 
VP Communications, NEOVIA Financial Plc 
Email:[e-mail] 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/neovia 
 
Citigate Dewe Rogerson 
          + 44 (0) 207 282 2940 
Sarah Gestetner / Michael Berryman 
 
 
Daniel Stewart & Company Plc 
     + 44 (0) 207 776 6550 
Paul Shackleton 
 
Regulatory information 
In the past five years, Ian Francis (age 51) has been a director of the 
following entities: 
Umeme Limited 
Oxshott Way Estate Holdings Limited(The)              resigned 31 January 2010 
 
Save as disclosed in this announcement, there is no further information that is 
required to be disclosed pursuant to Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules for 
Companies. 
 
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About NEOVIA Financial 
 
Trusted by consumers and businesses in over 170 countries to move and manage 
billions of dollars each year, NEOVIA Financial Plc is a leading alternative 
payments business. Through the NEOVIA Payment Network, merchants use the NETBANX 
processing merchant service to simplify how they accept and settle card, 
direct-from-bank, and cash payments, and the NETELLER payment account to 
increase margins, capture new customers and increase customer lifetime values. 
Being independent has allowed the company to support tens-of-thousands of 
retailers and merchants in many geographies and across multiple industries. 
 
NEOVIA Financial Plc is quoted on the London Stock Exchange's AIM, with a ticker 
symbol of NEO.  Subsidiary company NETELLER (UK) Ltd is authorised by the 
Financial Services Authority (FSA) to operate as a regulated e-money issuer.For 
more information about NEOVIA Financial visit www.neovia.com or subscribe at 
www.neovia.com/feeds/. 
 
 
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