HarbourVest Global Private Equity Limited announced that Edmond Warner, OBE, will join the Board of HVPE as a non-executive director, with effect from August 1, 2019. Following a period of handover, it is anticipated that Mr. Warner will be appointed by the Board as Chairman at its scheduled Board meeting in July 2020. As indicated in a company announcement on May 29, 2019, Sir Michael Bunbury, current Chairman, will retire from the Board at the Annual General Meeting on the same date. Mr. Warner has extensive financial services experience from years spent in senior positions at several investment banks and financial institutions, including IFX Group, Old Mutual plc, NatWest Markets and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. He also has considerable PLC experience and has chaired the Boards at a range of prominent organizations. Mr. Warner joined the Board of Grant Thornton UK LLP as an independent non-executive director in 2010 and became Chairman in 2016. He was appointed Chairman of Air Partner PLC in April this year. Prior chairmanships include Standard Life Private Equity Trust from 2013 to 2018, and Panmure Gordon & Co from 2010 to 2016. Outside of the financial sector, Mr. Warner chaired UK Athletics for ten years until 2017.