Directorate change

5 NOVEMBER 2014

NORTHERN VENTURE TRUST PLC

DIRECTORATE CHANGE

Northern Venture Trust PLC ("the Company") is pleased to announce that at a board meeting held on 5 November 2014, Mr Richard Green was appointed to the board as a non-executive director with immediate effect.

Mr Green is aged 52 and is an experienced private equity professional with board level leadership experience in both executive and non-executive roles of private companies, partnerships and a quoted investment trust plus extensive experience on industry boards and charities.  He was formerly with Kleinwort Benson Development Capital and was a founder of the spin-out business which became August Equity LLP, where he was managing partner until 2009 and then chairman until his retirement in April 2014.  He has over 20 years' experience as a non-executive director including healthcare, technology, media, engineering and manufacturing companies and is a past chairman of the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association and a former member of the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.  He is a non executive director of AIM-quoted Qannas Investments Limited, a member of the Advisory Board of Finance For Business North East, a member of the Advisory Committee of the European Investment Bank Growth Finance Initiative and a trustee of Dyslexia Action and the Chartered Accountants Livery Charity.

There are no further disclosures to be made under paragraph 9.6.13(1)-(6) of the Listing Rules in relation to Mr Green's appointment.

Enquiries:

Christopher Mellor, Company Secretary - 0191 244 6000
Website:  www.nvm.co.uk

Neither the contents of the NVM Private Equity Limited website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the NVM Private Equity Limited website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement.

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