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POWERSHARES GLOBAL FUNDS IRELAND PLC - Directorate ChangePOWERSHARES GLOBAL FUNDS IRELAND PLC - Directorate Change
PR Newswire
London, June 26
STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT
For Immediate Release 26 June 2015
PowerShares Global Funds Ireland plc
Re: Appointment of Director
Subject to the approval of the Central Bank of Ireland, the Directors of PowerShares Global Funds Ireland plc (the “Company”) wish to announce the intention to appoint of Mr William Manahan as a Director of the Company. A further announcement will follow as soon as the date of his appointment has been confirmed.
Mr William Manahan
Mr Manahan has spent over thirty years in Asset Management and Asset Servicing as a Sales and Services Manager for Bank of Ireland Assets Management and was a founding Director of Bank of Ireland Securities Services. As CEO of Bank of Ireland Security Services he set strategic direction for the business, agreed and delivered on specific goals and increased profitability on an annual basis. More recently he has acted as a Risk Advisor to the Central Bank of Ireland. He is a past council member of the Irish Funds Industry Association and past Chairman of the association through 2006-2007. He currently acts as an independent Non-Executive Director to Fund companies.
Mr William Manahan has never:
had any unspent convictions in relation to indictable offences; or been a director of any company or partnership which, while he was a director with an executive function or partner at the time of or within the 12 months preceding such events, been declared bankrupt, went into receivership, liquidation, administration or voluntary arrangements; or been subject to any official public incrimination and/or sanctions by statutory or regulatory authorities (including designated professional bodies); or been disqualified by a court from acting as a director of a company or from acting in the management or conduct of affairs of any company.Enquiries:
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