Malvern International plcAfter many years of service to the Company and financial support via KSP Investments, Gopinath Pillai is to step aside as Non-Executive Chairman and is resigning as a Director with immediate effect. KSP Investments, where Mr. Pillai is a Director, remains a significant shareholder and will continue to have representation on the Board of Malvern via Haider Sithawalla who continue hisrole as a Non-Executive Director. On 1 July 2019 Mark Elliott was appointed as an independent Non-Executive Director of the Company. Mr. Elliott is already making a significant contribution to the Company and the Board is delighted to announce his appointment as Non-Executive Chairman following the departure of Mr. Pillai. The company is also pleased to announce the appointment of Alan Carroll as an independent Non-Executive Director of the Company with immediate effect. Mr. Carroll has over 25 years' experience in the information systems industry, including working in a senior capacity in the development of the Ministry of Defence's Information System Strategy and as a senior sales manager and advisor to a number of major software and systems integration companies. He has been a Board member since Ideagen listed on AIM in July 2012 and has chaired the audit and remuneration committees throughout this time. Mr. Carroll was voted Non-Executive Director of the year in the May 2019 Money Week Mello awards. Mr. Carroll and Mrs. Carroll hold 700,000 and 50,000 ordinary shares respectively in the Company, representing in aggregate approximately 0.29% of the Company's issued ordinary sharecapital.