Spire Healthcare Group PLC

Board/Management Information • Mar 14, 2019

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Spire Healthcare Group PLC

14 March 2019

Spire Healthcare Group plc

(the Company or Spire)

14 March 2019

Appointment of Martin Angle

The Company is pleased to announce the appointment of Martin Angle as an independent Non-Executive Director with immediate effect.  Martin will replace Peter Bamford as Deputy Chairman and Senior Independent Director on 16 May 2019 when, as previously indicated, Peter stands down from the Board.

Martin has also been appointed a member of the Company's Nomination Committee and Remuneration Committee.  He will be appointed chair of the Nomination Committee from 16 May 2019.

Garry Watts, Spire's Chairman, said:

"We are delighted that Martin has agreed to join Spire's Board, he will bring considerable plc board and leadership experience both as principal and as an adviser.  The appointment maintains a strong independent presence on our Board and Martin's background in a number of industries will add significantly to the Board's breadth.  Peter will also be able to provide an orderly handover to Martin over the next two months."

Enquiries:

Cora McCallum, Head of Investor Relations

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7427 9169

Notes:

(1)        Martin Angle is currently the senior independent director of Gulf Keystone Petroleum plc, vice chairman of the FIA Foundation and chairman of Cybersec Innovation Partners, a private cyber security company.  He recently retired from the Boards of Pennon Group plc, and its separately regulated subsidiary South West Water, having completed 10 years on the Pennon Board.

He has previously held a number of non-executive positions including Savills Plc (Senior Independent Director), National Exhibition Group (Chairman), Severstal, then a world top ten steel company listed in London, Dubai International Capital, and Shuaa Capital, then the only listed Gulf investment bank.

In his earlier executive career, he held a number of senior positions in investment banking with SGWarburg & Co, Morgan Stanley and Kleinwort Benson, before becoming group finance director of TI Group plc, then a FTSE 100 with worldwide engineering activities.

He subsequently joined Terra Firma Capital Partners as an Operating Managing Director where he held a number of senior roles in its portfolio companies including Le Meridien Hotel Group (executive deputy chairman and acting chairman) and the Waste Recycling Group (executive chairman), then one of the leading UK waste management businesses.

(2)        It is confirmed that there are no further details to be disclosed pursuant to LR9.6.13R (1) to (6) and that Mr Angle does not currently hold any shares in the Company.

(3)        Peter Bamford was appointed Deputy Chairman and Senior Independent Director in May 2017 and has indicated he will step down from the Board on 16 May 2019.

(4)        The Company's 2019 annual general meeting will be held at 11.00am on Thursday, 16 May 2019 at the offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, 65 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1HT.

(5)        Following today's appointment, the members of Spire's Board of Directors are as follows:

Garry Watts - Chairman

Justin Ash - Chief Financial Officer

Jitesh Sodha - Chief Financial Officer

Peter Bamford - Deputy Chairman and Senior Independent Director*

Adèle Anderson - independent Non-Executive Director

Martin Angle - independent Non-Executive Director

Tony Bourne - independent Non-Executive Director

Dame Janet Husband - independent Non-Executive Director

Dr Ronnie van der Merwe - Non-Executive Director

Simon Rowlands - Non-Executive Director

* Standing down on 16 May 2019

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