SWEF: Appointment of Non-Executive Directors/ Succession planning and response to recent AGM voting (1107835)

 
 Starwood European Real Estate Finance Ltd (SWEF) 
SWEF: Appointment of Non-Executive Directors/ Succession planning and 
response to recent AGM voting 
 
03-Aug-2020 / 07:00 GMT/BST 
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3 August 2020 
 
               Starwood European Real Estate Finance Limited 
 
                              (the "Company") 
 
Appointment of Non-Executive Directors/ Succession planning and response to 
                             recent AGM voting 
 
    The Company is pleased to announce the appointment of Shelagh Mason with 
effect from 1 Sepetmber 2020 and Charlotte Denton with effect from 1 January 
                             2021 as Non Executive Directors of the Company. 
 
 Today's appointments are in accordance with the Board's existing Succession 
   Planning Memorandum which states that a new Director will be appointed to 
the Board during the second half of 2020 giving them time to get up to speed 
 prior to Mr. Jonathan Bridel standing down from the Board in December 2020. 
   In addition, the Company have decided that it is appropriate to appoint a 
       second Director to the Board to further improve the Company's skills, 
experience and diversity as well as to assist in the succession process when 
 Mr. Stephen Smith retires from the Board in December 2021 and when Mr. John 
                            Whittle retires from the Board on December 2022. 
 
       Stephen Smith, the Chairman of the Board of the Company, added: "I am 
  fortunate to have led a very able Board since the Group's formation, which 
        has performed well and continues to work effectively with a talented 
    manager. Shelagh and Charlotte will bring enormous talent as well as new 
skills and and a good deal of experience and we are delighted that we are in 
  a position to bring them on board early in the rotation, ensuring a smooth 
         transition. Any perceived imbalances in Board composition have been 
 addressed and we look forward to working with our new colleagues during the 
                                                           rotation period." 
 
 The Board would like to take this opportunity to thank all shareholders for 
                                                   their continuous support. 
 
                                                               Shelagh Mason 
 
   Shelagh Mason, aged 60, is a solicitor specialising in English commercial 
   property as a consultant with Collas Crill LLP. She is also non-executive 
 Chairman of the Channel Islands Property Fund Limited and sits on the Board 
 of Riverside Capital PCC, Skipton International Limited a Guernsey Licensed 
bank and is a non executive director of the Renewables Infrastructure Fund a 
  FTSE 250 company and she is also on the Board of Ruffer Investment Company 
       Limited. Previously Shelagh was a member of the board of directors of 
  Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust, a property fund listed on 
the London Stock Exchange for 10 years until December 2014. She retired from 
   the board of Medicx Fund Limited, a main market listed investment company 
    investing in primary healthcare facilities in 2017 after 10 years on the 
    board. She is a past Chairman of the Guernsey Branch of the Institute of 
             Directors and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Guernsey 
International Legal Association and she also holds the IOD Company Direction 
Certificate and Diploma with distinction. Shelagh is a resident of Guernsey. 
 
                                                            Charlotte Denton 
 
 During Charlotte's executive career she worked in various locations through 
 roles in diverse organisations, including KPMG, Rothschild, Northern Trust, 
     a property development start up and a privately held financial services 
  group. She has served on boards for over fourteen years and is currently a 
     Non Executive Director of various entities including a Butterfield Bank 
    (Guernsey) Limited, Cinven and Next Energy. Charlotte is a Fellow of the 
      Institute of Chartered Accountants and holds a degree in politics from 
  Durham University. She is also a member of the Society of Trust and Estate 
        Practitioners, a Chartered Director and a fellow of the Institute of 
                                                                  Directors. 
 
                                    For further information, please contact: 
 
                         Apex Fund and Corporate Services (Guernsey) Limited 
 
                                                                Vania Santos 
 
                                                          T: +44 1481 735878 
 
                                                                      Notes: 
 
      Starwood European Real Estate Finance Limited is an investment company 
   listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange with an investment 
  objective to provide Shareholders with regular dividends and an attractive 
         total return while limiting downside risk, through the origination, 
     execution, acquisition and servicing of a diversified portfolio of real 
   estate debt investments in the UK and the wider European Union's internal 
                                market. www.starwoodeuropeanfinance.com [1]. 
 
    The Group is the largest London-listed vehicle to provide investors with 
                                  pure play exposure to real estate lending. 
 
        The Group's assets are managed by Starwood European Finance Partners 
 Limited, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Starwood Capital Group. 
 
ISIN:          GG00B79WC100 
Category Code: BOA 
TIDM:          SWEF 
LEI Code:      5493004YMVUQ9Z7JGZ50 
Sequence No.:  79439 
EQS News ID:   1107835 
 
End of Announcement EQS News Service 
 
 
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