Directorate Change

22 Nov 2011 10:27

PANTHEON INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATIONS PLC

APPOINTMENT OF NEW DIRECTORS

The Directors are pleased to announce that Ms Susannah Nicklin and Sir Laurie Magnus have accepted invitations to join the Board as non-executive Directors with effect from 22 November 2011.

Ms Nicklin is an investment and financial services professional with 20 years experience, including corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, equity research, wealth management and asset management sales. She spent almost 15 years working with Goldman Sachs in the US, Australia and UK in their Investment Banking and Global Investment Research divisions before joining Alliance Bernstein in 2008, where she managed private client portfolios and led family office and quasi-institutional business development. She left Alliance Bernstein in August this year and has joined Bridges Ventures, a leading impact private equity firm, as the first Fellow on the Bridges Ventures Fellowship Programme. She is also a Research Associate at Henley Business School.

Ms Nicklin is not currently, and has not been in the last five years, a director of any other publicly quoted companies.

Sir Laurie Magnus is a senior adviser at Evercore Partners, the US listed corporate finance advisory business. He has over 30 years of investment banking experience, initially with Samuel Montagu & Co. Limited (subsequently HSBC Investment Bank), where he was deputy head of its UK corporate finance department. He joined Phoenix Securities Limited, the corporate finance advisory business focused upon the financial institutions sector, in 1995. Following its acquisition by Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Inc. ("DLJ"), the US investment bank, he became a Managing Director of the merged business. After DLJ was acquired by Credit Suisse First Boston ("CSFB") in 2000, he was briefly a Managing Director of CSFB before joining Lexicon Partners, initially as Vice Chairman and subsequently as Chairman, until Lexicon's merger with Evercore in 2011. Since 1996, his principal focus has been on the provision of corporate finance advice to the insurance industry, where he has been extensively involved with capital raisings and mergers and acquisitions.

Sir Laurie Magnus is also a non-executive director of the following publicly quoted companies:

The JP Morgan Income & Capital Trust plc (Chairman)

The Cayenne Trust plcFidelity Japanese Values plc

He was a previously (in the last five years) a director of the following publicly quoted companies:

TT Electronics plc (resigned July 2007)

Climate Exchange plc (resigned July 2010)

He is also Deputy Chairman of The National Trust and an elected member of its Council.

There are no details required to be disclosed pursuant to paragraph 9.6.13(b) to (g) of the UKLA Listing Rules in respect of either Ms Nicklin or Sir Laurie Magnus.

22 November 2011