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Appointment of New Directors
Appointment of New Directors.
About this update from Arbuthnot Banking Group Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n22 August 2023\nArbuthnot Banking Group PLC\nAppointment of three new independent non-executive directors \n \nThe Board of Arbuthnot Banking Group PLC (\"the Company\") is pleased to announce the appointment of three new independent non-executive directors, Jayne Almond, Angela Knight and Lord Sassoon, with effect from 1 September 2023. Jayne Almond and Lord Sassoon will also join Angela Knight on the board of Arbuthnot Latham & Co., Limited, the Company's banking subsidiary, as independent non-executive directors from that date.\n \nSir Henry Angest, Chairman and Chief Executive of the Company commented:\n \n\"I am delighted to welcome Jayne Almond, Angela Knight and Lord Sassoon to the Board of the Company. Each has a wealth of experience in financial services which will be of great value as the business continues to grow over the coming years.\"\n \nJayne Doreen Almond, also known as Jayne Hale (married name), aged 65, is a highly experienced professional in the banking, mortgages and financial services arenas, with past and present appointments as Chairman, Chief Executive and NED in a wide range of organisations. She is currently Chairman of Kensington Mortgages, a subsidiary of Barclays Bank UK plc and of Bluestep Bank AB. She is or has been a director of the following companies or partner in the following partnerships in the last five years:\n \nCurrent directorships:\nKensington Mortgage Company Limited\nBluestep Bank AB\nQuinta Properties Limited\nAldeburgh Golf Club Ltd\nBarts Square Freehold Owners Limited\nRedemption Roasters C.I.C.\n \n \nPast directorships:\nButterfield Mortgages Limited\nButterfield Holdings (UK) Limited\nLeopold Joseph Holdings Limited\nKHL Mortgage Services Limited\nThe Northview Group Limited\nGH Vive Limited\n \nAngela Ann Knight (formerly Cook) CBE, aged 72, has a wealth of commercial and financial experience from her time in government as a Treasury Minister, as Chief Executive of the British Bankers' Association (now UK Finance) and of Energy UK and as a non-executive director of a range of listed companies over many years. She is currently a Non-Executive Independent Member of the Board of the Astana Financial Services Authority, an independent regulator in Kazakhstan and was the former Chair of the Office of Tax Simplifi...