Prime Focus London PLC : Board Changes and Appointment of Nominated Adviser

Prime Focus Lndn PLC - Board Changes & Appointment of Nominated Adviser

RNS Number : 4771B

Prime Focus London PLC

17 April 2012

17 April 2012

Prime Focus London Plc

("Prime Focus" or the "Company")

Board Changes

Appointment of Nominated Adviser

Board changes

The Board of Prime Focus London plc, the visual entertainment services group, is pleased to announce the appointment of Bernard Kumeta as Chief Executive Officer and Christopher Honeyborne as Non-Executive Director. As part of the changes to the Company's board, which are with immediate effect, Naresh Malhotra and Rivkaran Chadha have resigned as directors of the Company. The Company's board as a result comprises the following:

Ramakrishnan Sankaranarayanan	Non-executive Chairman
Bernard Kumeta	Chief Executive Officer
Christopher Honeyborne	Non-executive Director
Shivkumar Venkatachalam	Non-Executive Director

Bernard Kumeta, 51, is a Chartered Accountant who has worked in industry since 1987, initially for a subsidiary of Simon Engineering plc and then for GEC Alsthom in France. He subsequently joined a division of William Baird plc, where at the age of 29 he gained his first board appointment. In 1996, he joined Findel PLC, quickly progressing into a number of general management roles. In 2001, he led a £20m management buyout of 2 companies from Findel. Through a series of acquisitions, he re-positioned the business to be a large-scale multi-channel distributor of home entertainment consumer goods. He carried out a wide-ranging rationalisation to consolidate the number of operational sites and reduce headcount and associated costs. The business was then sold back to Findel and he left the company in 2010. Since September 2011 he has been acting as a consultant to Prime Focus London plc working with senior management on business development projects.

Christopher Honeyborne, 71, is an experienced AIM company director and adviser generally to SMEs in the media, entertainment, engineering and financial sectors, with a focus to management restructuring and fundraising. After studying Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and a research career at the Universities of Reading and Bristol, Dr Honeyborne spent some 20 years working in the financial services sector in a number of roles, including with Lazard Brothers, Banque Paribas (now a major part of BNP-Paribas) and the Bank of Butterfield. Dr Honeyborne has since held Board appointments with a range of private and publicly listed companies. Most recently, Dr Honeyborne was Chairman of the Dyson Group plc, and of Zoo Digital Group plc. He was previously Chairman of Gremlin Group plc and of the Aspect Group , which became part of LBIcon AB of which he was a non-executive Director. He has also acted as non-executive director to, amongst others, Yorkshire Water Plc, Birse Group plc, Kunick plc, Rensburg Aim VCT plc,  Bannatyne Fitness Limited, and Cartier Limited, the UK subsidiary of the luxury goods company. Dr Honeyborne has held a number of additional positions, including a board membership with the Yorkshire region of the Prince's Youth Business Trust.

Appointment of Nominated Adviser

The Company is pleased to announce the appointment of its Broker, Northland Capital Partners Limited, as Nominated Adviser with immediate effect.

For further information, contact:

Prime Focus London plc
Bernard Kumeta	Tel: [phone]
Northland Capital Partners Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker)
Tim Metcalfe / Edward Hutton / Lauren Kettle	Tel: [phone]

Bernard John Kumeta

Current directorships Avid Management Services Limited Bluestone Property Trading Limited M & B Estates Limited Pavakeal Limited St. Giles Hospice

Past directorships held within the last 5 years Choices UK Group Limited Club Centre Limited Harness Hill Trustee Company Limited West Auck No. 38 Limited Webb Group Holdco Limited Webb Group Limited Webb Ivory (Burton) Limited Webb Ivory Properties Limited Webb TMD Limited