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Board Changes

19 Feb 2013 07:00

RNS Number : 1519Y
Spark Ventures PLC
19 February 2013
 



SPARK Ventures plc

("SPARK" or the "Company")

 

Board Changes

 

SPARK today announces that Jay Patel has stepped down as a director of the Company. Jay was one of the representatives of SPARK's investment manager, Spark Venture Management Limited ("SVML"), and has resigned in order to take up an executive position with IMImobile. Jay has been a representative of SVML and SPARK on the board of IMImobile since its foundation and has been working on secondment with them for the last two years. The Board of SPARK would like to thank Jay for his service over the last seven years. Jay remains a shareholder in SPARK, both of ordinary and D shares, and remains fully supportive of the current strategy.

 

As Jay's replacement and as the representative of SVML, Andrew David Norman Betton, aged 41, has been appointed as director of SPARK with immediate effect. Mr. Betton has been the company secretary of SPARK since July 2003 and was previously the finance director of SPARK until October 2009, when he was required to resign from the board as part of the management buy out.

 

Mr. Betton holds 334,000 ordinary shares in the capital of SPARK ("Ordinary Shares") and 1,818,182 options over Ordinary Shares with an exercise price of 4.5p per Ordinary Share.

 

For further information, please contact:

 

SPARK Ventures plc

Andrew Betton /

David Potter

020 7851 7777

finnCap

Matt Goode /

Christopher Raggett

020 7220 0500

 

 

The following further information in relation to the appointment of Mr. Betton is disclosed in accordance with Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

 

Current directorships and partnerships

Directorships and partnerships held in the last five years

NewMedia Spark Secretaries Limited

SPARK Ventures GP1 Ltd

SPARK Advisory Partners Ltd

Quester Ltd

SPARK India Ltd (Mauritius)

SPARK Scotland GP1 Ltd

SPARK Services Ltd

SPARK Scotland GP2 Ltd

Querist Ltd

SPARK VCT1 Ltd

Quester Academic GP Ltd

SPARK VCT4 Ltd

Quester Nominees Ltd

SPARK VCT5 Ltd

Quester Services Ltd

SPARK VCT6 Ltd

Quester Venture GP Ltd

NewMedia SPARK Holdings Gmbh

Quester Venture Participations Ltd

NewMedia SPARK BV

SPARK Impact Ltd

SPARK Venture Management Ltd

SPARK Venture Management Holdings Ltd

NewMedia SPARK Ltd

Wycombe AH Realisations Ltd

SPARK China Ltd

SPARK Group Ltd

NewMedia SPARK Directors Ltd

SPARK APH Ltd

SPARK Black Sheep Ltd

Hefei Friendship (UK) Association for friends of Hefei Ltd

 

 

As part of his employment with SPARK, Mr. Betton was director of both NewMedia Spark GmbH and NewMedia Spark BV at the time of their liquidations, both of which were undertaken in solvent circumstances.

 

There are no other matters which are required to be announced under Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

 

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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