Touchstone Gold Limited Appointment of New Director (0325Z)
December 08 2014 - 1:00AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 0325Z
Touchstone Gold Limited
08 December 2014
Touchstone Gold Limited (AIM:TGL)
("Touchstone" or the "Company")
Appointment of New Director
London, 8 December 2014 - Touchstone, the AIM listed investment
company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Richard Almeida
to its Board as non-executive director.
Richard Almeida's career spans over 20 years in the global
technology industry as a business founder and business builder,
with a successful track record of businesses that he founded being
sold to large global technology companies. Richard has worked at
Board and Senior Management level at a number of international
companies. He served as founding shareholder and Chief Technology
Officer of INSnet (later acquired by Cable & Wireless) and a
founder of Nominet UK, and Network Managers (later acquired by
Microsoft). He continues as advisor to early stage technology
companies, including businesses in the 'big data' sectors.
The company also announces that Shahed Mahmood will be stepping
down from the board.
Chief Operating Officer, Franz Forrester, commented, "We thank
Shahed for his contribution to the Company as it progressed through
its restructuring, and welcome Richard to the Board. Richard's
significant expertise in the telecoms and technology industry
strongly supports GOS' focus on high value commercial opportunities
and future growth."
Richard Almeida commented, "I am looking forward to working
closely with Touchstone's Board and Management to guide the Company
towards success. I shall use my background and experience in both
telecoms and technology to support GOS Systems within the hugely
growing homeland security space."
By way of background, on November 4, 2014, the Company announced
that it had successfully concluded an acquisition of GOS Systems in
accordance with its investment policy. GOS Systems (website:
http://www.gos-systems.com/) is a UK security group providing a
range of leading-edge tactical intelligence gathering and secure
communication solutions for law enforcement, homeland security and
government agencies around the world. GOS Systems' clients include
agencies in the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia.
Following the changes, the Board of Directors will comprise
Franz Forrester, Charles Goodfellow, Professor Arthur Gibson and
Richard Almeida.
See appendix for further information in accordance with Rule 17,
Schedule Two (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.
Richard Almeida has an interest in 4,466,657 common shares of
the Company, representing 0.9% of the issued share capital.
For further information please contact:
Touchstone Gold Limited Tel: +44 203 301 9337
Trevor Wells
finnCap Ltd Tel: +44 20 7220 0500
Matthew Robinson / Simon
Hicks
Peterhouse Corporate Finance Tel: +44 20 7469 0936
Limited
Lucy Williams
Appendix - AIM Rule 17
Save as disclosed herein, there are no additional disclosures to
be made in accordance with paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM
Rules in relation to Richard Phillip Almeida (Age 48).
Current Directorships
-- Ibex Ltd
-- Comand (Europe) Ltd
-- Comand Online Ltd
-- In2digi Ltd
-- Bluejay Properties Ltd
Previous Directorships / Partnerships in the Last Five years
-- Bluejay Properties LLP
-- Bluejay Homes Ltd
-- Sunningdale Capital LLP
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