Directorate Change

1 Sep 2008 07:30



Managed Support Services plc

(the "Company")

Directorate Change

The Company is pleased to announce that Euan McAlpine will join the Board as a non-executive director on 1 September 2008.

Mr McAlpine (50) joins from Cazenove Capital Management Ltd, where for the past eight years he has worked as a fund manager with an emphasis on business development in the north-west of England.  He joined Cazenove from Seamless Holdings Ltd, a manufacturer and installer of epoxy resin floor systems and decorative flake wall systems for industrial use, where he was Chairman and managing director for 3 years. Prior to joining Seamless Holdings, Mr McAlpine worked in a variety of roles for the Alfred McAlpine group of companies.

Mr McAlpine has voting interests in 100,000 ordinary shares representing 0.11% of the Company's current issued share capital.

Simon Beart, the Company's Chief Executive said:

"We are very pleased to welcome Euan to the Board where we believe that his wide ranging skills and experience of acquisitions will be invaluable and we look forward to working with him."

Save as disclosed below there are no additional disclosures to be made in accordance with paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM rules for Euan McAlpine. 

Euan McAlpine is currently a director of Ringcity Ltd and has been a director of Persicle Ltd during the last five years.

Mr McAlpine was the non-executive Chairman of Fearnley Group from November 1997 to September 1999. The company was bought in a management buy-in November 1997. In September 1999, the main lender requested that a receiver be appointed at which point Mr McAlpine resigned. The company is now in liquidation phase and there are not believed to be any outstanding creditors.

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