8 February 2024
Triple Point Venture VCT
Plc
(the "Company")
DIRECTORATE
CHANGES
The Board of Directors of Triple
Point Venture VCT plc announces that
Sam Smith has been appointed to the Board
as an Independent Non-executive Director, with immediate effect. In
addition, Sam has been appointed as Senior Independent Director and
member of the Audit Committee, with effect from the same date.
Following an orderly succession period, Jane Owen, Chair and
Non-Executive Director of the Company, will not stand for
re-election at the Company's AGM expected to be held in July 2024
and will step down following the conclusion of the AGM. Jamie
Brooke will be appointed as Non-Executive Chair of the Board,
immediately following completion of the AGM.
Sam Smith is an entrepreneur with
over 25 years' business and capital markets experience and has
specialised in advising small and mid-cap growth companies. Sam was
previously Chief Executive Officer of FinnCap Group PLC which,
under her leadership, has become one of the largest brokers for
companies listed on the AIM market of the London Stock
Exchange.
Sam is currently a non-executive
director of Solid State PLC listed on AIM, Sumer Group Holdings Ltd
a professional services firm supporting SMEs with accounting and
other services, Griffin Markets Limited, an OTC wholesale European
energy trading business and of 55 Redefined Ltd.
No further information is required
to be disclosed pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.13R.
Jane Owen, Chair of the Company,
said:
"I am delighted that Jamie Brooke
will be my successor as Chair and that Sam Smith will be joining
the Board. I believe that Sam's background, skills and enthusiasm
will serve the Company and shareholders well for what, I trust,
will be an exciting future for the Company."
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE
COMPANY, PLEASE CONTACT
Triple Point Investment
Management LLP
(Investment Manager)
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Tel: 020 7201 8989
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Ian McLennan
Belinda Thomas
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The Company's LEI is
213800AOOAQA5XQDEA89
Further information on the Company
can be found on its website
https://www.triplepoint.co.uk/current-vcts/triple-point-venture-vct-plc/s2539/
NOTES:
The Company is a Venture Capital
Trust incorporated in July 2010 and was established to fund small
and medium sized enterprises. The Investment Manager is Triple
Point Investment Management LLP.