PAR.L Regulatory News (PAR)

NOVENTA LIMITED

("Noventa" or the "Company")

[AIM: NVTA]

Directorate Change

16 February 2010

Noventa is pleased to announce the appointment of Patrick Lawless as Chief Operating Officer with effect from 19 April 2010. Mr. Lawless, 54, will become the Group Chief Executive Officer sometime before the end of June 2010, in succession to John Allan. Mr. Allan's expertise in project management and turnaround situations has been invaluable since his appointment in July 2009 following a substantial reorganisation of the Noventa board of directors ("Board")., Mr. Allan will remain on the Board as a Non-Executive Director once he has stepped down as CEO.

Mr. Lawless will be based at the Company's operational headquarters in Maputo, Mozambique. Mr. Lawless speaks Portuguese (the language of Mozambique), holds a MBA from Manchester Business School and is a Chartered Director. Mr Lawless joins Noventa from ESR Technology Limited ("ESR"), a high-end engineering consultancy, where he has been CEO since March 2008. Prior to ESR, Mr. Lawless was CEO of Bureau Veritas UK & Ireland from December 2006 to March 2008, a near £100m turnover company with 1,850 employees, having joined the company in June 2004. Bureau Veritas is one of the world's leading providers of independent testing and certification services, with many clients in the natural resources and process industry sectors.

Raised and educated in Africa, Mr Lawless earlier career included service in the armed forces as an officer in the British Army, leaving after a distinguished career in 2000 in the rank of Brigadier - having been promoted to this rank at 43, the earliest possible age. Since leaving the armed forces, he has held a number of senior appointments at Thales, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Barclays, including the re-structuring of Barclays Africa, and while at PricewaterhouseCoopers' corporate turnaround practise, the lead advisory role on a significant number of turnaround and restructuring assignments covering a broad range of industrial sectors.

Commenting on the appointment, Eric Kohn, Chairman of Noventa said:

"We are delighted to welcome Patrick to the board of Noventa. With his broad experience of the extractive industry - most recently in Oil & Gas - we are confident that Patrick will make an excellent contribution to the Company and lead the next stage of its operational development. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank John Allan for his invaluable contribution to the turnaround of the Company to date. The role of CEO during the turnaround phase of a business is always both a difficult and crucial role and John has performed this role exceptionally well. Now that the turnaround is coming to an end, I look forward to John's continuing contribution as a non-executive director."

Patrick Lawless is currently, or has been in the last five years, a director of the following companies:

Current Directorships:

ESR Technology Limited

Mars Omega Partnership Limited

Noise Festival Limited

Directorships held in the last five years:

Veterans Aid

Bureau Veritas UK Limited

ATL Consulting Group Limited

ATL Group Holdings Limited

Bureau Veritas B&I Limited

Bureau Veritas Certification UK Limited

Bureau Veritas Consolting Limited

Bureau Veritas HS&R Limited

Bureau Veritas Inspection Limited

Bureau Veritas Laboratories Limited

Bureau Veritas UK Holdings Limited

Casella Analytic

Casella Consulting Limited

Casella Science and Environment Limited

Formatnumber Limited

L.J.Church (Laboratory services) Limited

Pavement Technology Limited

Tenplenth Limited

Weeks Technical Services Limited

Winton Environmental Management Limited

Winton Holdings Limited

Bureau Veritas EM&I Limited

Safety Assessment Federation Limited

There are no further disclosures to be made in accordance with rule 17 and or Schedule Two (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies of the London Stock Exchange in connection with Mr. Lawless' appointment.

Patrick Lawless holds 0 Noventa ordinary £0.0004 shares as at the date of this announcement.

For further information please contact:

Eric F. Kohn TD

Chairman

Noventa Limited

+41 22 8500560

+41 79 5030150

www.noventa.net

Nick Harriss/Emily Staples

Blomfield Corporate Finance Limited

+44 20 7444 0800

Daniel Briggs

Religare Hichens, Harrison plc

+44 20 7444 0500