Miton UK MicroCap Trust plc announced that following a process run by Peter Dicks, the Company's Senior Independent Director, Bridget Guerin has been appointed as an independent Non-Executive Director and Chair designate of the company, with effect from 1 December 2020. She will also join the Audit and Management Engagement Committee. As part of the board succession plan, Andy Pomfret, the current Chairman, will leave the board at the next AGM of the Company, currently due to be held in September 2021. Bridget Guerin had an executive career in financial services marketing with Ivory & Sime, Schroders and the Matrix Group. She is currently Chairman of the Schroder Income Growth Fund plc, a non-executive director of the Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc and the Mobeus Income & Growth VCT plc. In September 2020 she stepped down from the board of Charles Stanley Group PLC where she was a non-executive director for eight years.