Dods Group PLC Directorate Change (7765X)
August 14 2018 - 6:39AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 7765X
Dods Group PLC
14 August 2018
14 August 2018
Dods Group PLC ("Dods", the "Company" or the "Group")
Directorate Change
The Company announces that Richard Boon has been appointed to
the Board as non-executive director with immediate effect.
Richard James Boon, aged 54, is the chief investment officer of
Artefact Partners and a Chartered Financial Analyst with 30 years
of research, portfolio management and private equity experience.
After qualifying in Law and Accountancy, Richard began his career
working in corporate finance on privatisations before immigrating
from N.Z. to the U.K. as Head of Regulatory Policy at The Post
Office from 1992-1994 when its privatisation was first considered.
Other roles have included Global Equity analyst & portfolio
manager at Morgan Stanley Asset Management 1995-2001; managing
director and U.S. equities portfolio manager at Merrill Lynch
Investment Managers 2001-2004; founder of FCA authorised investment
manager Artefact Partners in 2005, and adviser to private equity
firm Torchlight Fund LP from 2013. Over the past decade Richard has
specialised in media M&A and was responsible for the due
diligence which lead to the fund's purchase of an 11% stake in
regional and local newspaper group Local World from DMGT in 2012.
As a non-executive director Richard was actively involved in the
successful sale of that business to Trinity Mirror in 2015.
Richard has no shareholding in the Company. Save as disclosed
above, there is no further information required to be disclosed
pursuant to Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.
For further information, please contact:
Dods Group plc
Simon Presswell (Chief Executive Officer) 020 7593 5500
Nitil Patel (Chief Financial Officer)
Cenkos Securities plc (Nominated Adviser and Broker)
Nicholas Wells 020 7397 8900
Mark Connelly
Callum Davidson
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