Blue Planet Investment Trust plc (LSE: BLP)
Company Number: SC192153
12th March 2019
APPOINTMENT OF NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Blue Planet Investment Trust plc announces that on the
12th March 2019, Mr. Russell Frith was appointed a director and
Chairman of the Company.
Russell Anthony John Frith, BA
Hons Law & Economics, is a Chartered Accountant with over 35
years’ experience of business, public sector auditing and
supervision and in setting accounting and regulatory standards. He
commenced his career with Peat Marwick Mitchell (now KPMG) where he
audited major financial services companies and subsequently joined
Coopers & Lybrand’s (now PWC) corporate finance team, acting as
reporting accountant on acquisitions, disposals and flotations.
He was finance director of The Bank of Edinburgh plc from 1991 to 1994 before joining
the National Audit Office as a director. He retired from Audit
Scotland in 2017 as Assistant Auditor General, providing
accounting, auditing, advice and decisions to both the Auditor
General and the Accounts Commission. He was a member of the
Financial Reporting Advisory Board to H.M. Treasury; CIPFA/LASAAC
Joint Committee (the accounting standard setter for local
authorities in the UK); the UK Financial Reporting Council’s
Audit and Assurance Council and Chairman of its Public Sector
Advisory Group; on the INTOSAI Expert Reference Panel and has been
actively involved in setting regulatory and professional standards
in the UK and Ireland.
He is Chairman of the Audit & Assurance Committee of Social
Security Scotland and a Trustee of several charitable bodies.
There are no disclosures required under Section 9.6.13 of the Listing Rules in relation to this
appointment.
He will stand for election at the next Annual General Meeting to
be held in August 2019. The date of the meeting will be
confirmed in due course.
For more information, please contact the following:
Email: info@blueplanet.eu
Telephone: 0845 527 7588
Web: www.blueplanet.eu