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Wilmington plc announced the appointment of three new non-executive directors, Christopher Humphrey, Dr. Erika Schraner, and Martin Rowland, effective April 28th, 2026, to bolster the board's expertise in listed company environments, international markets, commercial development, M&A, and technology. Christopher Humphrey will serve as Senior Independent Director and join the Remuneration and Audit Committees, bringing extensive experience from previous roles at RM plc, Heywood Pension Technologies, Eckoh plc, AVEVA Group plc, Videndum plc, and SDL plc. Dr. Erika Schraner, with a PhD from Stanford University, will chair the Remuneration Committee and has significant experience in technology, data, and AI from her executive career and current directorships at Bytes Technology Group plc, HgCapital Trust plc, and JTC plc. Martin Rowland, currently a non-executive director and Executive Chair of Centaur Media plc, will join as a non-executive director and will also serve on the Audit Committee, bringing prior experience from Smoove plc and investment roles.

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Wilmington plc (LSE: WIL, 'Wilmington', 'the Group'), the GRC RegTech services group, today announces the appointment of three new non-executive directors who will join the board on April 28th 2026 - Christopher Humphrey joins as Senior Independent Director, Dr. Erika Schraner joins as Chair of the Remuneration Committee and Martin Rowland joins as a non-executive director. Christopher will also join the Remuneration and Audit Committees, Martin will join the Audit Committee.

Christopher is currently Senior Independent Director of RM plc and was Non-Executive Chair of Heywood Pension Technologies until 20 February 2026, following its acquisition by BlackRock and, until recently (20 January 2025), Chair of AIM-listed Eckoh plc, a position he held since 2017. He also served as Senior Independent Director and Audit Committee Chair at AVEVA Group plc from 2016 to 2023, Senior Independent Director and Audit Committee Chair at Videndum plc from 2013 to 2022, and non-executive director at SDL plc from 2016 to 2023. Chris has had a number of leadership roles during his career, including the position of Group Chief Executive Officer of Anite plc from 2008 to 2015.

Erika is currently Senior Independent Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee at Bytes Technology Group plc, Senior Independent Director at HgCapital Trust plc and Senior Independent Director, Chair of the Nomination Committee and Chair of the Audit Committee at JTC plc. During her executive career, she spent more than 18 years working in Silicon Valley in the technology sector. She held senior professional services roles with Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers, and an executive role at with Symantec Corporation, a global cybersecurity company. Earlier in her executive career, she held roles with IBM, REL Consultancy Group and Computer Science Corporation. Through this experience, she developed deep exposure to data and AI-enabled technologies within enterprise software. Erika earned a PhD in management science and engineering at Stanford University. Prior to her current roles, she served as a non-executive director and Chair of the Audit Committee at Videndum plc (2022-2024), non-executive director at Pod Point Group Holdings plc (2021-2025), non-executive director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee at BluJay Solutions Ltd (2021) and non-executive director and Chair of the Audit Committee at Aferian plc (2019-2022).

Martin is currently non-executive director and Executive Chair of Centaur Media plc and a non-executive director of Fevera plc. He was previously non-executive director and Chair of Smoove plc (2018-2023) and Chair of Inzpire Group. Prior to this, he held investment roles at LDC, the private equity fund, before moving into an advisory role with businesses.

Gordon Hurst, Chair of Wilmington, said

"I would like to welcome our three new non-executive directors to the board. They bring immense experience of the listed company environment with significant experience across international markets, commercial development, M&A and technology."

The Group is making this announcement pursuant to UK Listing Rule 6.4.6R with no further disclosures necessary under UK Listing Rule 6.4.8R(1) to (6).

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