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RNS Number : 4873R  VPC Specialty Lending Invest. PLC  06 June 2024

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 12(th) 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:

 

 Victory Park Capital                              via Jefferies or Winterflood (below) info@vpcspecialtylending.com

 Gordon Watson

 Sora Monachino

 Jefferies International Limited                   Tel: +44 20 7029 8000
 Stuart Klein

 Gaudi le Roux

 Winterflood Securities Limited                    Tel: +44 20 3100 0000
 Joe Winkley
 Neil Morgan

 Montfort Communications                           +44 (0)7717 857736 /+44 (0)7798 626282
 Matthew Jervois/ Gay Collins                      vpc@monfort.london (mailto:vpc@monfort.london)

 Link Company Matters Limited (Company Secretary)  Tel: +44 20 7954 9567

                                                   Email: VPC@linkgroup.co.uk

 

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 (http://vpcspecialtylending.com) .

 

LEI: 549300UPEXC5DQB81P34

 

 

 

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