Miton Global Opportunities appoints Richard Davidson and Katya Thomson to its Board as Independent Directors

– UK, London – Miton Global Opportunities plc (LSE:MIGO) announced the appointments of Richard Davidson and Ekaterina (Katya) Thomson as independent non-executive directors of the Company, with effect from 18 December 2017.

Richard is currently Chair of the University of Edinburgh’s Investment Committee, and a Trustee of their staff pension scheme as well as chair of the Gresham House Forestry Investment Committee. Formerly, he was a partner and manager of the Macro Fund at Lansdowne Partners. Prior to that, Richard was a managing director of Morgan Stanley, where he worked for 15 years. He was the fund manager of the Global Asset Allocation fund for Morgan Stanley Investment Management and served as the firm’s chief European equity strategist. Richard has previously held directorships at Vantage Investment Management and Rivercrest Capital. He is an Associate of the Institute of Investment Management and Research and holds a joint honours degree in Business Studies and Law from Edinburgh University.

Katya is a corporate finance, strategy and business development professional with over 20 years of experience with UK and European blue chip companies, gained at Thomas Cook Group plc, Lazard, ABN AMRO and Deloitte. She is the founder of Temerity Consulting and a non-executive director of Henderson EuroTrust plc (where she is also chairman of the Audit Committee), Thomas Cook Nederland BV and The New Carnival Company CIC. Katya is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Richard has been appointed as chairman-elect of the Company and Katya as chairman-elect of the Company’s Audit Committee. As previously announced, Anthony Townsend (Chairman) and James Fox (Audit Committee Chairman) will step down from the Board after a suitable handover period and the effective date of their retirement will be announced in due course.

Richard and Katya have both been appointed to the Company’s Audit Committee and the Management Engagement Committee.

Anthony Townsend commented: “My fellow directors and I are delighted to welcome Richard and Katya to the Board. We are very pleased to have appointed directors with extensive industry and financial expertise.”

Their appointment will be proposed to shareholders for ratification at the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in September 2018.

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