6 June 2024
VPC Specialty Lending
Investments PLC
(the "Company")
Appointment of
Directors
The Board is pleased to announce the
appointment of Nick Campsie and Martin Rigby as non-executive
directors of VPC Specialty Lending Investments PLC with effect from
12th June 2024, following the conclusion of the
Company's Annual General Meeting.
Nick has deep experience of public
and private asset investment, both as an investment manager and
manager of managers. As global head of illiquid investments for
Eton Park Capital Management he was responsible for the winding
down of a significant portfolio of private assets between 2012 and
2019. He also serves as the Chairman of the Legal Aid Agency, is a
non-executive director of HM Prisons and Probation Service and is
an Independent Member of the London Policing Board.
Martin has over 35 years' experience
as a venture investor and has been involved in the realisation of
the assets of 14 funds. His experience of backing growth technology
businesses includes Bango, the UK listed digital payments business
(AIM: BGO) which operates in the US and other global markets and
where he was a non-executive director for 12 years, stepping down
in 2019. He has invested in both fintech and e-commerce businesses
giving him domain knowledge of the business environment in which
many of the Company's portfolio companies operate. He is Chair of
the FSE Group, a UK-based provider of equity and debt funding to
high growth businesses, and managing director of ET Capital, a
venture fund manager based in Cambridge, both roles requiring
oversight of investment management teams.
Martin and Nick will both serve as
members of the Company's Audit and Valuation and Management
Engagement Committees. They do not currently have any interest in
the ordinary shares of the Company.
Martin was an executive director of
Psonar Limited which was subject to a creditors voluntary
liquidation on 9 August 2017. There is no other information
required to be disclosed under Listing Rule 9.6.13R in respect of
Martin or Nick.
Enquiries
For further information, please
contact:
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Victory Park Capital
Gordon Watson
Sora Monachino
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via Jefferies or Winterflood (below)
info@vpcspecialtylending.com
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Jefferies International Limited
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Tel: +44 20 7029 8000
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Stuart Klein
Gaudi le Roux
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Winterflood Securities Limited
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Tel: +44 20 3100 0000
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Joe Winkley
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Neil Morgan
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Montfort Communications
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+44 (0)7717 857736 /+44 (0)7798
626282
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Matthew Jervois/ Gay
Collins
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vpc@monfort.london
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Link Company Matters Limited (Company
Secretary)
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Tel: +44 20 7954 9567
Email:
VPC@linkgroup.co.uk
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About VPC Specialty Lending Investments PLC
VPC Specialty Lending Investments
PLC (Company No. 9385218) is a UK listed investment trust focused
on asset-backed lending to emerging and established businesses with
the goal of building long-term, sustainable income generation. The
Company identifies investment opportunities across various
industries and geographies to offer shareholders access to a
diversified portfolio of opportunistic credit investments
originated by non-bank lenders with a focus on the rapidly
developing technology-enabled lending sector.
Further information on VPC Specialty
Lending Investments PLC is available at: http://vpcspecialtylending.com.
LEI: 549300UPEXC5DQB81P34
