Northern Bear announced the appointment of Martin Boden to the Board as a non-executive director of the Company with immediate effect. Martin Boden is a Chartered Accountant with considerable experience in high growth businesses. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, he worked for FTSE 100 companies including WH Smith Group, NatWest Group and then Great Universal Stores where he was Group Financial Controller, primarily Manchester based.

Martin has worked as Group CFO with both AIM and FTSE 250 listed companies as well as Private Equity owned organisations, having most recently been Group CFO at Small World Financial Services Group Limited. Martin's AIM listed experience was initially with Genus plc, a global animal genetics business that moved up to the FTSE 250, and most recently with Westminster Group plc, a global aviation security services business. Martin has been an executive main board member of businesses since 2007 and has previously worked with JDR Cable Systems Limited who are based in Hartlepool and with Bettys & Taylors who are based in Harrogate.