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Appointment of Michael Hough as Chairman

10 Mar 2014 07:00

RNS Number : 8381B
Litebulb Group Limited
10 March 2014
 



LiteBulb Group Limited

("LiteBulb" or the "Company" or the "Group")

 

Appointment of Michael Hough as Chairman

 

LiteBulb (AIM: LBB), the brand and product development specialist, announces the appointment of Michael Hough, co-founder and former Managing Director of Altium Capital, as Non-Executive Chairman, with immediate effect.

 

Michael is an experienced investment banker, having co-founded Altium Capital Limited (formerly Apax Partners & Co) in 1990, a corporate finance advisory business focussed on providing advice to small and mid-sized companies seeking private equity, recapitalisation funds or an exit. As Managing Director Michael was instrumental in building Altium Capital into a leading boutique investment bank for smaller companies with offices across Europe and over 120 employees.

 

Michael also co-founded Iceni Capital in 2005, a UK based private equity fund focusing on small to medium sized services companies in the UK. At the same time Michael co-founded Aurora Investment Advisors Limited a private equity fund focussed on Russia.

 

Michael has successfully chaired a number of companies including OSG Records Management where during his chairmanship Revenues and EBITDA grew from approximately $5m and $(0.4)m respectively to $35m and $7.0m respectively in less than 5 years. OSG was sold to a leading Russian Private Equity firm in 2013

 

Michael is based in Hong Kong where he is also Chairman of a privately held Hong Kong holding company with a number of operations in Mainland China

 

In 2001 he and several other partners also invested in a successful London-based retail fund management company which became a leading UK fund manager. Michael began his investment banking career at Goldman Sachs & Co in New York, before joining Drexel Burnham Lambert in London in 1988. He holds an MBA from the University of Virginia's Darden School and is a fellow of the UK Securities and Investment Institute.

 

Simon McGivern, CEO of LiteBulb, commented: "I am delighted to welcome Michael, an existing shareholder in the business, to our Board as Chairman. Michael has huge experience in providing advice to rapidly growing small cap companies and helping these businesses maximise value for their shareholders. Michael's input to our business will be invaluable and his experience in fast growth emerging markets will help us as we expand our footprint internationally."

 

LiteBulb Group Limited

www.litebulbgroup.com

Simon McGivern, Chief Executive

Tel: 020 3384 7131

 

 

finnCap (NOMAD & Joint Broker)

Tel: 020 7220 0500

Stuart Andrews/Ben Thompson (Corporate Finance)

 

Joanna Weaving (Corporate Broking)

 

 

 

Walbrook PR Limited

Tel: 020 7933 8780 or litebulb@walbrookpr.com

Bob Huxford

Mob: 07747 635 908

Paul McManus

Mob: 07980 541 893

 

 

Additional information:

 

Michael Hough, aged 53, holds 50,000,000 shares in the Company and other than as set out below there is no further information to be disclosed under schedule 2(g) and Rule 17 of the AIM Rules in respect of his appointment as a Director of the Company.

 

Michael is a director / partner or has been a director / partner of the following companies / partnerships during the previous five years:

 

Current directorships/partnerships

 

Director/Partner in the last 5 years

Aurora Investments Advisors Limited

Aurora Russia Cyprus Limited

BruPro SA

Helford Atlantic Limited

Henry Technologies Holdings LLC

HGH Limited

HGH Management Limited

HHSS LLP

Iceni Capital LLP

Iceni Capital LP Limited

Marsh Global Holdings

MH Advisory LLP

SCI Helford Azur

Spirit Yachts (Asia) Limited

WW Initial Investors LLP

 

 

30 St James's Square Investments Limited

30 St James's Square GP Limited

Altium Capital CIS Limited

Apollo Lifts Group Limited

Flexbank Limited

OSG Records Management Europe Ltd

Proventec plc

 

 

 

Michael Hough was a director of MWT (Herning) ApS, a Danish company, which on 8th May 2013 went into Administrative Receivership. MWT (Herning)'s only customer was Siemens. It was clear for more than a year that MWT (Herning)'s business may fail but the Directors took all reasonable steps, including seeking legal advice, to mitigate this. The winding up of the company has not yet been finalized.

 

 

About LiteBulb Group

LiteBulb Group designs, manufactures and distributes innovative brands and products to the global retail market.

 

LiteBulb Products, including Ila, Scootrix and Silly Socks, are sold in over 30 countries through blue chip retailers including: ASDA, BHS, Tesco, Sainsbury's, WH Smith, Halfords, Morrisons, QVC, Next, Fenwicks and Toys R Us.

 

LiteBulb Creative is a creative agency with global reach, delivering compelling and agile brand extension programmes to the entertainment industry. LiteBulb Creative has designed products and campaigns for clients around the world, including Disney, Hasbro and Miramax.

 

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