XPT Xploite

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XploiTe PLC
25 July 2007

25 July 2007



Xploite plc



Richard Ramsay appointed as non-executive Director



Xploite plc (AIM: XPT, "Xploite" or "the Group"), the operator and aggregator of
strategic and high growth IT services businesses, is pleased to announce the
appointment of Richard Ramsay as an independent non-executive Director and
Chairman of the Remuneration Committee. Richard will also be a member of the
Audit Committee.



Richard Alexander McGregor Ramsay, aged 57, is a non-executive Director of
Artemis, the AiM VCT and a Director of Intelli Corporate Finance, a corporate
finance house specialising in the investment manager and closed end funds
sectors.  Richard has a long career in investment banking and was Chief
Operating Officer of the Corporate Finance Division of Barclays de Zoete Wedd
plc, the investment banking arm of the Barclays Group and before that a Director
of Corporate Finance at Hill Samuel & Co plc where he worked for almost 10
years.



Subsequently he moved into fund management as a Director of Ivory & Sime plc.
He has previously been a non-executive Director of The Edinburgh Inca Trust, a
trust run by Edinburgh Fund Managers investing in Latin America, and the
Independent Investment Company, a development and venture capital trust,
management by Ivory & Sime.  Richard started his career as an accountant at
Price Waterhouse & Co.



More recently, Richard spent two years between 2001 and 2003 as Managing
Director of Regulation and Financial Affairs at OFGEM, the regulatory authority
for the gas and electricity industries.  Prior to this he was Director and
Company Secretary for Aberdeen Football Club plc between 1997 and 2000.



Richard succeeds Alan Watkins who, as previously announced, steps down from the
Board with immediate effect.  Xploite will continue to use Alan's services
through his company Calibre Management to support its growth programme.



John Standen, Chairman of Xploite plc, said:



"Richard's extensive experience in the financial services sector, particularly
fund management and investment banking, will bring additional depth and a strong
independent voice to the Board as we rapidly expand the Group."



Under Schedule 2, paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules, the following information is
disclosed in relation to Richard Ramsay in addition to the information above:



Other directorships held in the past five years:



Artemis AiM VCT PLC      (non-executive director)                     (current)

Intelli Corporate Finance Limited  (executive director)               (current)

OFGEM  (Managing Director)                                      (resigned 2003)

Richard Ramsay Limited  (Director)                                    (current)


Other than the information contained within this announcement, there is no 
further information required by Schedule 2, paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules to be 
disclosed.



Enquiries:


Xploite plc                                                         0870 7372001
John Standen, Chairman

KBC Peel Hunt  Ltd                                                 020 7418 8900
Oliver Scott / Nicholas Marren

College Hill                                                       020 7457 2020
Adrian Duffield




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