The Board of The Mercantile Investment Trust plc announced the appointment of Angus Gordon Lennox as a non-executive Director of the Company with effect from 23rd September 2015. Mr. Gordon Lennox is Executive Chairman of two private family businesses. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Securities Trust of Scotland plc, a role he has held since 2013.

Previously he had a 24 year career as a corporate broker, first as a Partner of Cazenove & Co, and later as a Managing Director of JPMorgan Cazenove, which he resigned from in August 2010.