The Board announced the appointments of Brigid Sutcliffe and Howard Williams as non-executive Directors of the Company with effect from 8 February 2023. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1983 and gaining an MBA in 1987, Brigid Sutcliffe spent thirty years working in investment banking and as a strategic change management consultant, advising companies across a wide range of sectors. She has been a non-executive director for a variety of organizations in the public, private and third sectors over the past eighteen years, including science and technology research, technical business services, higher education and social housing.

Brigid is also a non-executive Director and Audit Chair of Troy Income & Growth Trust plc. Howard Williams has forty years of fund management experience and was, until October 2017, Chief Investment Officer and Head of the Global Equity Team at JPMorgan Asset Management. Prior to joining JPMorgan Asset Management in 1994, he held a number of senior positions at Shell Pensions and Kleinwort Benson Asset Management.

He started his career at James Capel & Co. He is also a non-executive director of Schroders Unit Trust Limited, a non-executive director of Dunedin Income Growth Investment Trust PLC and of LifeSight Limited. It is the Board's intention that Brigid Sutcliffe take over the role of Audit Committee Chair after Jo Dixon retires at the Company's AGM in November.