Directorate Change

Sarantel Group PLC 11 December 2006 Sarantel Group PLC ('Sarantel') Directorate Changes Sarantel is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Ernest Arthur Richardson to the Board of Sarantel as Non Executive Director with immediate effect. On the appointment, Mr Matt Taylor and Mr David Ward will retire from the board. Ernie, aged 56, is a graduate Chemical Engineer and Chartered Management Accountant. He is the CEO and Managing Partner of MTI Partners, the private equity firm, and is also a Director and Chairman of several of MTI's investee companies with a general focus on software and communications. At MTI he has been responsible for a number of the firm's most successful transactions. He became CEO & Managing Partner in 2003. Geoff Shingles, Non Executive Chairman of Sarantel commented: 'I am delighted to welcome Ernie to the board of Sarantel. We are fortunate to have his experience and skills available to us at this important stage of the Group's development. Our thanks go to David Ward and Matt Taylor for their support over the past few years and we wish them well for the future.' Ernie is currently a Director of MTI Partners Limited, MTI Managers Limited, MTI Ventures General Partner Limited, MTI Trustees Limited, MTI3 General Partner Limited, MTI Executives Limited, MTIP Nominees Limited, MTI Executives 2 Limited, MTI4 General Partner Limited, MTI Nominees Limited, The Message Pad Limited, MMGS Limited, iBase Image Systems Limited, Digital Communications Technologies Limited, Chevin Software Engineering Limited, Message Plus Limited, Nu Holdings Limited, VegaStream Group Limited, and fsdc plc. In the past five years, he has been a director of Sension Limited, Citel Technologies Limited, Viewgate Limited, Phocis Limited and Danum Group Limited. He was a Director of the following companies which went into liquidation: Pace Communications (UK) Limited, Integrated Vision Systems Limited, Switch Board Limited, Turnright Controls Limited, Turnright International Limited, IntegriSys Limited, Danum Group Limited. There are no other disclosures which are required to be announced pursuant to paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 to the AIM Rules. For further information please contact: Sarantel Group PLC www.sarantel.com Geoff Shingles, Chairman/David Wither, CEO 01933 670560 Smithfield 020 7360 4900 Sara Musgrave / Tania Wild Pictures are available for the media to view and download from www.vismedia.co.uk Notes to Editors: About Sarantel Sarantel designs, manufactures and sells patented, ceramic, filtering antennas for use in portable wireless devices. These antennas allow a clearer signal than conventional antennas whilst reducing the amount of energy absorbed by the body by approximately 90 per cent. They also simplify system design, thus allowing design standardisation and reduced time to market and cost for manufacturers. Sarantel's antennas significantly improve the performance of wireless systems by increasing their range and effective bandwidth. The Company supplies antennas to the Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) market and the North American satellite radio market and Sarantel's antennas have been successfully designed into Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs), laptops and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). Sarantel's antenna technology is also capable of servicing multiple high volume markets such as Wi-Fi, 3G and Bluetooth. Sarantel is listed on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange and is included in the IT Hardware sector (93) within the Telecommunications equipment sub-sector (938) and has a RIC code of SLG.L This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
UK 100

Latest directors dealings