Aurora Investment Trust plc announced the appointments of Rachael Robathan and Lucy Walker as non-executive directors of the Company. These appointments will take effect from 2 December 2019. Lady Robathan has been a Councillor for Westminster City Council since 2010 following a 20 year career in emerging market investment management. Lucy Walker is a Senior Associate Partner of Sarasin & Partners LLP, having joined as an analyst in January 2011. She is now portfolio manager and Head of Third Party Funds. Lucy previously worked in the Multimanager team at HSBC Global Asset Management. The current Audit Committee chair, Richard Martin, will step down from this role on 2 December 2019. Rachael has been appointed Richard's replacement, as Audit Chair, and will assume this role on 2 December 2019. In order to manage the handover of the role of Audit Chair, Richard has agreed to continue to serve as a non-executive director of the Company until the Annual General Meeting ('AGM') to be held in 2020, at which point he will not seek re-election to the Board. At the Company's AGM on 10 June 2019, slightly over 20% of votes cast were recorded against Resolution 6, to re-elect Steve Tatters as a director.  The Board has had an opportunity to discuss the votes cast against Steve's re-election, this being attributed to his being an employee of Phoenix Asset Management Partners Limited, Aurora's Investment Manager. The Board has concluded that there should no longer be a representative of the Investment Manager on the Board and accordingly Steve has agreed to step down as a director of Aurora with effect from 2 December 2019.  He  remains an employee of Phoenix Asset Management Partners Limited and in that capacity will continue to play a key role in the management of Aurora. The Board has reviewed its overall composition and strategy for its progressive renewal. The appointments of Rachael Robathan and Lucy Walker, the resignation of Steve Tatters as a director and the impending resignation next year of Richard Martin form parts of this process.