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Eight Capital Partners PLC

24 June 2021

24 June 2021

Eight Capital Partners plc

("ECP", "Eight Capital" or "the Company")

Appointment of Non-Executive Director

Former Bank of England Chief Financial Accountant joins ECP Board

Eight Capital Partners plc (AQSE: ECP), the investing company whose investment strategy focuses on technology, media, telecom and financial services businesses including listed investing companies, is pleased to announce that it has appointed David Bull to the Board as a Non-Executive Director with immediate effect.

Mr Bull, a Chartered Accountant, is a technology driven experienced financial services professional with a banking and financial services digitisation mindset. He has most recently been CFO of Vive Bank a new digital bank targeting banking automation for individuals, and has held senior board roles within banking, asset finance, treasury and credit management institutions.

He has extensive international banking and financial services expertise acquired over more than two decades, including seven years at Deutsche Bank and as Chief Financial Accountant at The Bank of England, where he led a team 30 staff. Latterly he has held a number of CFO/COO Main Board positions and is currently CFO of Vive Bank, a New UK digital "Challenger" bank.

Dominic White, Chairman of Eight Capital commented: "We are delighted to welcome David to the Board. His knowledge and experience of technology and the way it relates to asset and commercial finance, international banking and the digitisation of banking services, combined with his strong risk management skills and proven business leadership qualities will be invaluable as we move towards more advanced technologies in the financial services sector such as DeFi.

"It is a timely appointment as ECP continues to strengthen its focus on digitisation of financial services with particular attention being paid to fintech, financial services, banking digitisation and DeFi (crypto) banking."

The following information is disclosed pursuant to R.4.9 of the AQSE Growth Market Access Rulebook.

David Richard Bull (aged 49) holds or has held the following directorships or partnerships in the past five years:

 
 Current Directorships or   Previous Directorships or Partnerships 
  Partnerships 
 
 Azule Limited              AMC Trust Limited 
                           --------------------------------------- 
 Azule Finance GmbH         Henry Butcher industrial Finance 
                             Limited 
                           --------------------------------------- 
 GH Vive Limited            PCF Asset Finance Limited 
                           --------------------------------------- 
                            PCF Bank Limited 
                           --------------------------------------- 
                            PCF Business Finance Limited 
                           --------------------------------------- 
                            PCF Credit Limited 
                           --------------------------------------- 
                            PCF Equipment Leasing Limited 
                           --------------------------------------- 
                            PCF Finance Group Limited 
                           --------------------------------------- 
                            PCF Financial Leasing Limited 
                           --------------------------------------- 
                            PCF Group plc 
                           --------------------------------------- 
                            PCF Leasing Limited 
                           --------------------------------------- 
                            PCF Portfolio Management Limited 
                           --------------------------------------- 
                            Private and Commercial Finance 
                             Company Limited 
                           --------------------------------------- 
                            T.M.V. Finance Limited 
                           --------------------------------------- 
 
 

Mr Bull does not hold shares in the Company.

There is no further information to be disclosed pursuant to R.4.9 of the AQSE Growth Market Access Rulebook.

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of the UK Market Abuse Regulation and the Directors of the Company are responsible for the release of this announcement.

Enquiries:

 
 Eight Capital Partners plc      +44 20 3808 0029 
  Dominic White                   info@eight.capital 
 Cairn Financial Advisers LLP 
  AQSE Corporate Adviser 
  Jo Turner / James Lewis        +44 20 7213 0880 
 Walbrook PR Limited             +44 20 7933 8780/+44 7768 807631 
  Paul Vann/Nicholas Johnson      EightCapital@walbrookpr.com 
 
 
 

About Eight Capital Partners:

Eight Capital Partners plc is an international investing company whose investment strategy focuses on technology, media, telecoms and financial services businesses, including both privately-owned and listed entities. It has recently refined its strategy to focus increasingly upon investing in those businesses engaged in "Fintech" operations, from the digitisation of banking services, through to blockchain-backed decentralised finance companies and "crypto banks".

ECP provides equity, debt, and equity-related investment capital to companies seeking capital for growth and development, consolidation or acquisition, or pre-IPO financing. The Company seeks to generate an attractive rate of return for shareholders, predominantly through capital appreciation, by taking advantage of the increasing number of investment opportunities within the continuously developing global technology, media, telecoms and financial services sectors.

www.eight.capital

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