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Invesco
Global Equity Income Trust plc
Headline:
Appointment of Non-Executive Director
The Board
of Invesco Global Equity Income Trust plc (`the Company') is
pleased to announce the appointment of Sue
Inglis as a Non-Executive Director of the Company with
effect from 10 October 2024. It is
anticipated that Sue will be appointed as Chair of the Company upon
the retirement of the Company's current Chair, Victoria Muir. Victoria plans to retire from the
Board at the conclusion of the Company's Annual General Meeting
(`AGM') on 21 November 2024, after
serving on the Board since 2015. Sue will also be appointed to the
Company's Audit, Management Engagement, Marketing and Nomination
Committees. Sue's appointment will be proposed to shareholders at
the aforementioned AGM.
Sue Inglis has a wealth of experience from more than 30
years advising listed investment companies and financial
institutions. Before embarking on a non-executive career, her
executive roles included managing director - Corporate Finance in
the Investment Companies teams at Cantor Fitzgerald Europe
(2012-2018) and Canaccord Genuity (2009-2012). Sue is a qualified
lawyer, and was a partner and head of the funds and financial
services group at Shepherd & Wedderburn, a leading Scottish law
firm. In 1999 she was a founding partner of Intelli Corporate
Finance, an advisory boutique firm focusing on the asset management
and investment company sectors, which was acquired by Canaccord
Genuity in 2009.
Sue is
currently the senior independent director of Baillie Gifford US
Growth Trust plc, CT Global Managed Portfolio Trust plc (where she
also chairs the audit committee) and Seraphim Space Investment
Trust plc.
Sue was
formerly a non-executive director of Asian Energy Impact Trust plc,
Momentum Multi-Asset Value Trust plc, The European Investment Trust
plc, NextEnergy Solar Fund Limited and The Bankers Investment Trust
plc.
Commenting
on the appointment Victoria Muir,
said: "We are delighted to welcome Sue
Inglis to the Board. Sue brings with her extensive asset
management, financial, legal and investment trust experience and
her leadership skills will support the Board and the Company in
delivering its strategic objectives, following the completion of
the restructuring earlier in the year."
No further
details are required to be disclosed under UKLR 6.4.8R.
Invesco
Asset Management Limited
Corporate
Company Secretary
9 October 2024