Appointment of Non Executive Director

RNS Number : 1178V

Fox Marble Holdings PLC

09 January 2013

 



AIM:  FOX

09 January 2013

Fox Marble Holdings Plc

("Fox Marble" or the "Company") 

Non-Executive Director Appointment

Fox Marble is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Jourdan as a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director, with immediate effect.  The appointment is in consideration of the right granted to Amati Global Investors Limited as set out under the Series 1 Placing Convertible Loan Notes issued by the Company.  

Dr Paul Arthur Jourdan (aged 47) is CEO of Amati Global Investors Limited, a fund management company based in Edinburgh and London.  He has been involved in managing equity funds for 14 years, and specialised early on in UK smaller companies, running the TB Amati UK Smaller Companies Fund (formerly the First State British Smaller Companies Fund) from September 2000 on, for which he has won several awards and is AA rated by Citywire.  He launched what is now Amati VCT plc in 2005, under the name of First State AIM VCT plc.  He founded Amati Global Investors with Douglas Lawson in 2010.  

In addition to serving as a Director of Amati Global Investors, which is regulated by the FSA, and as a managing partner of Amati Global Partners LLP, Dr Jourdan is a director of two UK charities: Sistema Scotland and the Hebrides Ensemble.  He also serves as a Governor of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Dr Jourdan was previously an investor-representative director of AIM-quoted Cantono Plc between December 2008 and September 2009 which entered a creditors' voluntary winding up in June 2009.  

Andrew Allner, Non-executive Chairman of Fox Marble, commented:

"Paul Jourdan's appointment further strengthens our Board.  We look forward to working with him, and to the additional expertise he will bring."

There is no further information required to be disclosed in respect of the above appointment pursuant to Schedule Two paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules.

Enquiries

For more information on Fox Marble, please visit www.foxmarble.net, or contact:

Fox Marble Holdings Plc
Christopher Gilbert, Chief Executive Officer	Tel: [phone]
Fiona Hadfield, Chief Financial Officer
Fox Davies Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)	Tel: [phone]
Susan Walker
Daniel Fox-Davies
Merchant Securities (Joint Broker)	Tel: [phone]
Lindsay Mair
Buchanan	Tel: [phone]
Mark Court / Fiona Henson / Sophie Cowles	www.buchanan.uk.com

 

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