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Directorate Change

26 Jun 2015 11:18

POWERSHARES GLOBAL FUNDS IRELAND PLC - Directorate Change

PR Newswire

London, June 26

STOCK EXCHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT

For Immediate Release 26 June 2015

PowerShares Global Funds Ireland plc

Re: Appointment of Director

Subject to the approval of the Central Bank of Ireland, the Directors of PowerShares Global Funds Ireland plc (the “Company”) wish to announce the intention to appoint of Mr William Manahan as a Director of the Company. A further announcement will follow as soon as the date of his appointment has been confirmed.

Mr William Manahan

Mr Manahan has spent over thirty years in Asset Management and Asset Servicing as a Sales and Services Manager for Bank of Ireland Assets Management and was a founding Director of Bank of Ireland Securities Services. As CEO of Bank of Ireland Security Services he set strategic direction for the business, agreed and delivered on specific goals and increased profitability on an annual basis. More recently he has acted as a Risk Advisor to the Central Bank of Ireland. He is a past council member of the Irish Funds Industry Association and past Chairman of the association through 2006-2007. He currently acts as an independent Non-Executive Director to Fund companies.

Mr William Manahan has never:

had any unspent convictions in relation to indictable offences; or been a director of any company or partnership which, while he was a director with an executive function or partner at the time of or within the 12 months preceding such events, been declared bankrupt, went into receivership, liquidation, administration or voluntary arrangements; or been subject to any official public incrimination and/or sanctions by statutory or regulatory authorities (including designated professional bodies); or been disqualified by a court from acting as a director of a company or from acting in the management or conduct of affairs of any company.

Enquiries:

Invesco Asset Management Limited

Suzanne Charlton/Natalie Pope

+442037531259