29 Apr 2022 13:38
29 April 2022
HgCapital Trust plc
("HGT", "the Company")
Legal Entity Identifier: 213800J7QUJJBEFSIN38
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Directorate Change
HGT is pleased to announce that Dr Erika Schraner will join the Board from 1 August 2022.
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Erika has held a number of senior leadership roles in global organizations with a career spanning 25 years in Silicon Valley, UK and Europe, in Fortune 500 companies and the Big 4 professional services firms. Erika has a blend of leadership, commercial and financial expertise, and extensive experience in M&A, strategy, digital transformation, cyber security and operations.
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Jim Strang, Chairman of HGT, said: "On behalf of the Board, I am delighted to welcome Erika to HGT later this year. She has a wealth of technology and digital expertise, as well as extensive experience in M&A, deal value creation, realisations, and finance, which will bring a diversity of skills, background and personal strengths relevant to HGT now and as the Company continues to execute its strategy of investing in a portfolio of high-growth private companies in the software and services sector."
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Currently, Erika serves as a non-executive director and audit committee chair of Aferian plc and is a non-executive director and chair of the nomination committee at JTC Group Plc. Erika is also a NED of Bytes Technologies plc and Pod Point Group Holdings plc. Erika's executive career included, most recently, a role of a partner, UK M&A Integration Leader & TMT M&A Advisory / Delivering Deal Value Leader at PwC in London until 2018. Prior to that, Erika held a number of senior professional services roles with Ernst & Young in Silicon Valley where ultimately she became a partner and the Americas' Operational Transaction Services leader for the Technology sector. Before that, Erika worked at IBM, Symantec Corporation, and CSC/DXC Technology. Erika also served as a board member at Kevian Capital Management LLC and an advisory board member at FreeOn Ltd and eBoomerang Inc. Since 2007, Erika has been an investor in early-stage companies.
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Erika received a PhD from Stanford University in Management Sciences & Engineering and a MS in Mathematics from EPFL Switzerland. In 2020, she was included on the 100 Women to Watch list, published by Cranfield University, which recognises leading female professionals.
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On appointment to HGT, Erika will join the Audit, Valuation & Risk Committee, and the Nomination Committee. She will also chair the Management Engagement Committee following the departure of Mr Peter Dunscombe in May 2022.
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There are no other details that are required to be disclosed under 9.6.13R of the Listing Rules.
For further details please contact:
Company Secretary, Link Company Matters Limited
Aleksandra Saldarini +44 (0) 7540 297 938