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POLR Polar Capital Holdings Plc

533.00
-11.00 (-2.02%)
Last Updated: 13:35:23
Delayed by 15 minutes
Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Polar Capital Holdings Plc LSE:POLR London Ordinary Share GB00B1GCLT25 ORD 2.5P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  -11.00 -2.02% 533.00 533.00 535.00 543.00 529.00 543.00 156,975 13:35:23
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
Investment Advice 182.88M 35.61M 0.3533 15.28 544.27M

Polar Capital Holdings PLC Directorate Change (7738V)

25/07/2018 3:38pm

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Polar Capital Holdings PLC

25 July 2018

25 July 2018

Polar Capital Holdings PLC (the "Company")

Appointment of Non-executive Directors

Polar Capital Holdings PLC ("the Company") is pleased to announce the following changes to the Board of Directors.

At a Board Meeting held after the Annual General Meeting Alexa Coates was appointed as a non-executive Director and as Chair of the Audit Committee to succeed Hugh Aldous. Alexa has also been invited to join the Remuneration and Nomination Committees.

Quintin Price was also appointed as a non-executive Director and has been invited to join the Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees.

Both appointments are subject to Financial Conduct Authority approval.

Alexa is a chartered accountant with 25 years of experience in finance and accounting. She has spent the last 10 years at a senior level in the financial services industry, having joined HSBC in 2008 where she became the Global CFO of Asset Management before heading up the finance function for Commercial Banking, Europe.

She is a non-executive director of Schroders Oriental Income Fund Ltd, a Guernsey domiciled, London listed investment trust.

Quintin has had a 30 year career in the investment banking and investment management industries, working at a senior level for a number of leading companies. From 2005 to 2015 he was at BlackRock where he was Global Head of Alpha Strategies and a member of the Global Executive Committee.

He a Senior Advisor at Actis, a privately owned private equity, real estate and energy & infrastructure company with $7.4bn of AUM as of the first quarter end 2018.

Tom Bartlam, Chairman, commented "We are delighted that both Alexa and Quintin have agreed to join the Board. They bring wide experience of the investment management industry and we look forward to benefitting from their extensive experience."

A full list of Alexa Coates' current directorships and past directorships held within the last five years are listed below.

Current Directorships (as at 25 July 2018)

 
  Position        Company 
   Non-executive   Schroders Oriental Income Fund Ltd 
    Director 
                  ----------------------------------- 
 

Past Directorships (in the last five years)

 
  Position           Company 
   Director           HSBC (BGF) Investment Limited 
                       (Investment holding company) 
                     ----------------------------------------- 
   Director           HSBC Asset Finance M.O.G Holdings (UK) 
                       Limited 
                       (Investment holding company) 
                     ----------------------------------------- 
   Director           HSBC Invoice Finance (UK) Limited 
                       (Commercial banking operations company) 
                     ----------------------------------------- 
   Finance director   HSBC Equipment Finance (UK) Limited 
                       (Commercial banking operations company) 
                     ----------------------------------------- 
   Director           HSBC Enterprise Investment Company (UK) 
                       Limited 
                       (Investment Holding company) 
                     ----------------------------------------- 
   Director           HSBC Asset Finance Holdings Limited 
                       (Holding company) 
                     ----------------------------------------- 
   Finance director   HSBC Global Asset Management Limited 
                       (Holding company) 
                     ----------------------------------------- 
   Director           CCF & Partners Asset Management Limited 
                       (Investment holding company) 
                     ----------------------------------------- 
   Director           HSBC Investment Funds (Luxembourg) SA 
                       (Management operating company) 
                     ----------------------------------------- 
 

Alexa Coates does not currently hold any shares in the capital of the Company.

   Full Name                    Alexa Jane Coates 
   Age                              48 
   Previous names           Morrell 

A full list of Quintin Prices' current directorships and past directorships held within the last five years are listed below.

Current Directorships (as at 25 July 2018)

 
  Position   Company 
   Director   Leconfield Group Limited 
             ------------------------- 
 

Past Directorships (in the last five years)

 
 Position   Company 
 Director   BlackRock Advisors (UK) Limited 
           ------------------------------------- 
 Director   BlackRock Investment Management (UK) 
             Ltd 
           ------------------------------------- 
 Director   BlackRock Group Limited 
           ------------------------------------- 
 Director   BlackRock International Limited 
           ------------------------------------- 
 Director   Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft 
           ------------------------------------- 
 

Quintin Price does not currently hold any shares in the capital of the Company.

   Full Name                    Quintin Rupert Salter Price 
   Age                              57 
   Previous names           None 

Save as disclosed above, there are no further disclosures required to be made in respect of the appointments under Schedule 2(g) or Rule 17 of the AIM Rules for Companies.

Enquiries:

 
  Polar Capital Holdings PLC 
   Tom Bartlam (Chairman) 
   Gavin Rochussen (CEO) 
   John Mansell (COO)                          +44 (0)20 7227 2700 
  Canaccord Genuity - Nomad and Joint Broker 
   Simon Bridges (QE) 
   Andrew Buchanan                             +44 (0)20 7523 8000 
  Peel Hunt - Joint Broker 
   Guy Wiehahn                                 +44 (0)20 7418 8893 
  Camarco - PR Advisers 
   Ed Gascoigne-Pees                           +44 (0)20 3757 4984 
 

This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact rns@lseg.com or visit www.rns.com.

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