BlackRock Throgmorton Trust appoints Loudon Greenlees as additional Non-Executive Director

– UK, London – BlackRock Throgmorton Trust plc is pleased to announce the appointment of Loudon Greenlees as an additional non-executive director of the Company with effect from 26 March 2014.

Mr Greenlees will also serve as a member of the Company’s Audit, Management Engagement and Nomination Committees. Loudon is a an independent member of the Compliance, Risk and Audit Committee of Nevsky Capital LLP. He was previously Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Thames River Capital from 1999 until 2007 and then Commercial Director until his retirement in May 2013.

He was also Group Finance Director and Chief Operating Officer of Rothschild Asset Management from May 1996 to September 1998 and prior to that he spent ten years from May 1986 to May 1996 as Group Finance Director of Baring Asset Management.

He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1974. Mr Greenlees has no interest in the ordinary shares of the Company at the present time.

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