Directorate Change

Polar Capital Holdings PLC
24 July 2007





Polar Capital Holdings plc


Appointment of Directors


Polar Capital Holdings plc (the 'Company'), the specialist asset management
group, is pleased to announce the appointment of two non-executive directors
with immediate effect.


Mr Tom Bartlam has accepted the Board's invitation to join the Board as a
non-executive director and Chairman elect. Mr Bartlam was a managing director of
Intermediate Capital Group plc which he co-founded from 1989 until his
retirement in 2005. He remains on its board as a non-executive director and is
non-executive Chairman of Pantheon International Participations and a non
executive director of Numis Corporation plc and F&C UK Select Trust plc. Mr
Bartlam takes up the position of non executive director on 24 July 2007 and will
become Chairman following the AGM on 19 September 2007.


As announced at the IPO, Mr Hale, the current Chairman will stand down as
Chairman but will remain as a non-executive director.


Mr Hugh Aldous, has also accepted the Board's invitation to become a
non-executive director with effect from 24 July 2007 and to be Chairman of the
Audit Committee of the Board. Mr Aldous is a partner in Grant Thornton and was
formerly a partner in RSM Robson Rhodes from 1976 where he was latterly head of
its financial services team. Mr Aldous is also Chairman of The Eastern European
Trust plc, and formerly Chairman of its audit committee from 1996, a
non-executive director of Innospec Inc, where he has been a member of the audit
committee since 2004, Chairman of the audit committee at Henderson TR Pacific
Investment Trust plc since 2003 and a director of Elderstreet VCT which he
joined earlier this year.



Mr Kary, Chief Executive, commented


'I am delighted to welcome Tom Bartlam and Hugh Aldous to the Board and believe
that their wealth of experience will prove invaluable in the next stage of the
Company's development. I would also like to pay tribute to Charles who has been
Chairman since 2002 and has played an important and strategic role in the
development of the Company.'



Additional details as required by Rule 17 specified in schedule 2, 
paragraph (g).


Tom Bartlam (aged 59)


Holding in the Company's ordinary shares: Nil


Directorships in previous five years:

Current: Intermediate Capital Group plc, Pantheon International Participations
plc, Numis Corporation plc, F&C UK Select Trust plc, Blounce Farms Limited, 39
Acres (SW) Limited, The Leonard Cheshire Foundation.


Past: Elmville Limited, Homebuy Group Plc.


Mr Bartlam was appointed a non-executive director of Homebuy Group plc in May
2006 and resigned in October 2006. On 15 September 2006 Homebuy Group plc was
placed in administration.


Save for the information disclosed above there is no other information to be
disclosed under schedule two, paragraph (g) of the AIM rules.



Hugh Aldous (aged 63)


Holding in the Company's ordinary shares: 10,000 Ordinary Shares of 2.5p (0.014%
of the total issued ordinary shares)


Directorships in previous five years:

Current :The Eastern European Trust plc, Henderson TR Pacific Investment Trust
plc, Innospec Inc (formerly Octel Corp), Elderstreet VCT plc (and formerly
Elderstreet Millennium VCT plc), Smart Education Limited.


Past: Craegmoor Limited, RSMi Limited, Tensim Limited


Save for the information disclosed above there is no other information to be
disclosed under schedule two, paragraph (g) of the AIM rules.




Enquiries:

Mark Kary, Chief Executive or John Mansell, Chief Operating Officer
[phone]
OR
Financial Dynamics
Ed Gascoigne-Pees [phone] / Felicity Murdoch [phone]




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