Board Changes

Interregnum PLC 07 July 2004 7th July 2004 INTERREGNUM PLC ('Interregnum' or 'the Company') DIRECTORATE CHANGE ADVISORY BOARD APPOINTMENTS John Scarisbrick and Steve Lewis to join Advisory Board, Martin Peck to leave main Board. Interregnum plc, the technology merchant bank, announces that it has extended the membership of its Advisory Board with the appointment of John Scarisbrick and Steve Lewis. Interregnum's Advisory Board, chaired by John Forrest CBE, provides market and deal origination support to the Company. John Scarisbrick worked for 25 years at Texas Instruments ('TI') in a variety of roles, including as Senior Vice President, responsible for TI's $5 billion Application Specific Products chip business; as President of TI Europe, and as head of the team that created TI's Digital Signal Processing business in Houston, Texas. Prior to this, he worked in electronics systems design roles at Rank Radio International Ltd and Marconi Space and Defence Systems Ltd in the UK. John is currently Non-Executive Director of ARM Holdings plc and Cambridge Silicon Radio plc. He sits on the board of three private companies in the technology/telecoms sector - SonIM Inc, Intrinsity Inc and UbiNetics Ltd. He is also Chairman of Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd. Steve Lewis was, until May 2004, Microsoft's General Manager of Market Development, where he was responsible for driving industry adoption of the Microsoft platform and .NET. Prior to Microsoft, Steve served as General Manager of the Messaging and Collaboration division of IBM's Lotus Development Corporation, having previously held key executive positions in business development, product strategy, engineering and sales. Separately, the Company announces that with immediate effect, Martin Peck has resigned his position of Corporate Finance Director from the Board of Interregnum. He will become a consultant to the Company and will advise on transactions where appropriate. Ken Olisa, Chairman & CEO of Interregnum, said: 'I am delighted to welcome John and Steve to the Advisory Board and I am sure that their experience in the technology sector will prove invaluable to the development of Interregnum's business. I would also like to thank Martin for his contribution to the Board and we are pleased that he will retain his links with the company as a consultant.' -Ends- Contacts: Interregnum plc T: 020 7494 3080 Ken Olisa, Chairman & CEO Merlin PR T: 020 7653 6620 Vanessa Maydon 07802 961902 Rebecca Penney 07795 108178 Notes to Editor Interregnum plc (www.interregnum.com), the AIM-listed technology merchant bank (symbol: ITR), invests and takes principal finance positions in technology companies and advises corporates, government, technology entrepreneurs, advisors and investors on issues such as corporate finance, IP exploitation and commercial due diligence. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange