The Board of Witan Pacific Investment Trust PLC announced that it has agreed to appoint Mr. Dermot McMeekin as a non-executive Director of the company with effect from May 1, 2012. Mr. McMeekin is a qualified lawyer and former Partner in Trower Still & Keeling who for much of his life has been a senior International Strategy Consultant, having spent nearly twenty years in the Asia Pacific region, including seventeen years based in Singapore.