LONDON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Alliance Trust said onThursday it had appointed Chris Samuel and Karl Sternberg asnon-executive directors following consultation with its largestshareholders, which include activist fund Elliott Advisors.
Alliance Trust agreed to revamp its board earlier this yearby appointing two directors pushed by Elliott in one of thehighest-profile shareholder rebellions against a Britishcompany.
"We remain fully committed to delivering measures that willaddress the feedback we have received from our shareholders,"Alliance Trust chairwoman Karin Forseke said in a statement.
Samuel and Sternberg will join the board with immediateeffect, Alliance Trust said.
It said two current directors, John Hylands and AlastairKerr, would retire in May 2016, after which it intended thatSternberg would become senior independent director.
This means that from next year, five of the nine servingboard directors will have been appointed since 2014, AllianceTrust said.
Samuel was chief executive of Ignis Asset Management from2009 until its sale to Standard Life Investments last year.
Sternberg was a founding partner of Oxford InvestmentPartners.
(Reporting by Carolyn Cohn; Editing by Matt Scuffham)
