RIT Capital Partners plc announced the appointments of Vikas Karlekar and Cecilia McAnulty as independent non-executive directors, with immediate effect. Vikas is Managing Director of Group Finance at Intermediate Capital Group PLC, a FTSE 100 Asset Manager. He is a qualified chartered accountant and previously held positions at Barclays, UBS and KPMG.

He is also a Trustee and Treasurer of the Pepal Foundation, a charity focused on bringing together NGOs and global corporations to develop leaders and find practical solutions to challenging social issues. Cecilia is currently a non-executive director of Northern 2 VCT plc and Polar Capital Global Financials Trust plc and she chairs the Audit Committees for both of these companies. She is a qualified chartered accountant and has held a number of senior investment rolesfor banks and hedge funds.Cecilia is alsoa member of the Industrial Development Advisory Board of the UK government's Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.