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WANdisco plc

("WANdisco" or the "Company")

Board appointments

Appointment of Karl Monaghan as Non-executive Director and

Erik Miller as Chief Financial Officer and Board Director

WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a leading provider of enterprise-ready, non-stop cloud software solutions, announces the following board appointments.

Karl Upton Monaghan (54) has been appointed to the Board as Non-executive Director of the Company with immediate effect. Mr Monaghan is currently Managing Partner at Ashling Capital LLP, which he founded in December 2002, to provide consultancy services to both quoted and private companies.

Prior to founding Ashling Capital, Mr Monaghan has worked in Corporate Finance for Robert W Baird, Credit Lyonnais Securities, Bank of Ireland, Johnson Fry and BDO Stoy Hayward. Additionally, he trained as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG in Dublin and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from University College Dublin.

Mr Monaghan brings a wealth of capital markets and board experience and is currently a Non-executive Director of AIM companies CareTech Holdings plc and Sabien Technology Group plc.

In addition, the Company is pleased to announce that Erik Edwin Miller (56) has rejoined the Company on a full time basis as Chief Financial Officer and reappointed as a Board Director. Mr Miller has held the role of Interim SVP of Finance at WANDisco since 10 October 2016 and will assume his new role with immediate effect.

Mr Miller has held a number of senior financial positions, most recently serving between 2010 and 2016 as Chief Financial Officer of Envivio, Inc., a NASDAQ listed, multinational software-based video processing company. During his tenure, Envivio tripled revenues and successfully listed on NASDAQ in 2012. Envivio was purchased by Ericsson AB in October 2015.

Other notable roles include serving between 2008 and 2010 as Chief Financial Officer of SigNav Pty. Ltd, a multinational developer of GPS-based timing solutions for the telecommunications industry based in Sydney, Australia, and serving between 1994 and 2000 as Chief Financial Officer of Meridian Data, Inc., a developer of network attached storage solutions, a NASDAQ listed company. Mr Miller's international business experience has also brought him to the UK, notably between 2003 and 2005 where he served as Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer at BlueArc Corporation: a multinational developer of enterprise Network Attached Storage systems, based in Bracknell, UK and San Jose, California.

David Richards, Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chairman of WANdisco, commented:

"We are delighted to welcome Karl to the Board of WANdisco and believe he brings a good combination of advising high growth companies alongside extensive UK capital markets exposure. His appointment, along with the return of Erik Miller as full time CFO and Board Director is a strong statement of intent by WANdisco as we look to aggressively grow our business in the medium term.

"I look forward to working alongside both Karl and Erik as we continue to progress and execute on our strategic ambitions."

Save as disclosed above, there are no other details to be disclosed regarding the appointment of Erik Miller and Karl Monaghan as required under Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.

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About WANdisco

WANdisco (LSE: WAND) is the world leader in Active Transactional Data Replication™. Its patented technology provides continuous consistent access to changing data anytime and anywhere with no downtime and no disruption. WANdisco's patented technology serves crucial high availability (HA) requirements, including migration to cloud, Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Subversion, Git and Gerrit.

WANdisco works directly with Fortune 1000 companies around the world and in all sectors to ensure their data, whether it is on-premise or in the cloud, gives them the real insight they need. WANdisco has an OEM with IBM and is also partnered with Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Google Cloud Platform, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft Azure and Oracle to resell its patented technology. WANdisco is committed to the ODPi Interoperable Compliance Program to ensure its products are interoperable across a wider range of commercial Apache™ Hadoop® Platforms.

For additional information, please visit www.wandisco.com.