Value and Income Trust PLC announced the appointment of Baroness Josephine Clare Valentine as an independent Non-executive Director, with effect from 13 November 2020. Baroness Valentine is a Crossbench Member of the House of Lords. Her other current non-executive roles include Vice Chair of University College London and Chair of Heathrow Southern Railway Ltd. She is also currently working as co-Director of Place for Business in the Community, where she is helping to regenerate "left behind" towns. Baroness Valentine spent many years as Chief Executive of London First, following which she worked in Blackpool between 2017 and 2019 working on a regeneration project. Prior to London First, she worked at Barings Bank, where she was an investment banker and the first female corporate finance manager. In 1988, on secondment from Barings, she established and ran 'The Blackburn Partnership', a public-private partnership to regenerate Blackburn, Lancashire. In 1990, she joined The BOC Group to head the corporate finance and planning function, leaving in 1995 to establish the Central London Partnership (CLP). Other previous roles have included being a National Lottery Commissioner, a member of the Board of Governors for The Peabody Trust, a London housing association, a non-executive director of HS2 and of Crossrail, and a Board member of a Triple Point venture capital trust.