AGM, Board change, investment

Brainspark PLC 22 July 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 22 July 2005 BRAINSPARK PLC Passing of resolutions at AGM, new director and undertakings to invest up to £305,000 in convertible stock due 2006 AGM Brainspark announces that all the resolutions put to members at the 2005 Annual General Meeting on 22 July were passed. NEW DIRECTOR Immediately following the AGM, Mr. Alfredo Villa was invited to join the Board. Mr. Villa, 44, has had a distinguished banking career in Switzerland and Italy. He is presently based in Italy, where he is a board member and partner of Gabbrielli & Associati, a financial consulting company based in Milan, and Mediapolis SpA, an Italian based real estate company. Mr. Villa is also on the Board of Oranco Inc., a NASDAQ OTC listed company. Mr. Villa joins as a non-executive director. At present, no non-executive director receives fees from the Company. The information relating to Mr. Villa required under Rule 17 of the AIM Rules and paragraph (f) of Schedule Two of those Rules is shown in the Schedule below LOAN STOCK The Company's Chairman, Professor Francesco Gardin, Mr. Villa, Luigi Fogliani (a relative of Professor Gardin's wife) and certain others not connected with any of them (the 'Investors') have agreed to invest up to £305,000 in interest free convertible loan stock due 2006 (the 'Loan Stock'). The Loan Stock is convertible at the option of the holder or the Company at the mean mid market price for the ordinary shares of one penny each for the business days between 24 June 2005 (the date upon which the Investors first expressed interest in investing) and 15 August 2005 (being a date sufficiently in the future to allow the market to digest this announcement. If not converted by either holder or the Company, the Loan Stock will be repaid by the Company on 31 March 2006. To the extent that Investors have not already done so, funds will be provided to the Company by 15 August 2005. The funds raised by the issue of the Loan Stock will be used to meet the ongoing working capital requirements of the Company and its investees. AIM RULE 13 The Directors, other than Messrs Gardin and Villa, having consulted with the Company's nominated adviser believe the terms of the Loan Stock are fair and reasonable insofar as the shareholders are concerned. Further information Francesco Gardin, Brainspark PLC 00 39 0228 0141 Roland Cornish, Beaumont Cornish Limited 020 7628 3396 SCHEDULE AIM Rule 17 Information Full name Alfredo Maria Villa Date of birth 25 May 1961 Present directorships Gabbrielli & Associates Mediapolis SpA Oranco Inc. Past directorships Givigest Fiduciaria SA SCF SA Unspent convictions None Bankruptcies/IVAs None Receiverships etc None Liquidations None Receiverships None Public criticisms None This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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