Schroder UK Growth Fund Plc

Alan Clifton*+
Chairman of the Company

Aged 64, Chairman since 5 August 2002, was appointed as a Director on 18 June 2001 and was previously the Managing Director of Morley Fund Management (now Aviva Investors), the asset management arm of Aviva plc. He is currently Chairman of JP Morgan Fleming Japanese Smaller Companies Investment Trust plc and a Director of International Biotechnology Trust plc and a number of other investment companies.

Bob Cowdell

Mr Cowdell, qualified as a solicitor with the City firm Theodore Goddard. He was subsequently a member of the investment trust teams at brokers Warburg Securities and de Zoete & Bevan. He left RBS Hoare Govett in July 2011, after 15 years, where he was a Managing Director of Global Banking & Markets, with responsibility for Hoare Govett’s Financial Sector corporate broking and Equity Capital Market -activities; having previously co-founded and then led the ABNAMRO Global Investment Funds Team.

Andrew Hutton*+

Aged 53, was appointed as a Director on 3 September 2008. He is an independent investment advisor and Director of A.J. Hutton Ltd. Prior to setting up his own business in 2007, he was Head of Investment Management at Coutts and subsequently joint-MD of RBS Asset Management. He has also worked for JP Morgan from 1979 to 1997 in London, Melbourne, New York and Singapore.

Stella Pirie, OBE*+
Chairman of the Audit Committee

Aged 60, was appointed as a Director on 5 August 2002. She is currently a Director of Avon Rubber plc and Highcross Group Limited. She is Chair of Governors of Bath Spa University and was previously a Director of GCap Media Plc.

David Ritchie*+

Aged 66, was appointed as a Director on 6 August 2001. He is Chairman of Cornelian Asset Management Group Limited and a Director of AMEC Staff Pensions Trustee Limited. He is a former
Executive Chairman of Scottish Widows Investment Management Limited and Chairman of Edinburgh New Income Trust plc.