The Board of JPMorgan Claverhouse Investment Trust plc announced the appointments of Victoria Stewart and Nicholas Melhuish as non-executive directors of the company with effect from 1 February 2020. It has previously been announced that Humphrey van der Klugt and Jane Tufnell intend to retire as directors following the company's Annual General Meeting in 2020. Victoria was the sole manager of the Royal London UK Smaller Companies Fund from its inception in 2007, leaving in 2016 and taking up a non-executive director role with Secure Trust Bank PLC where she is Chairman of the Remuneration Committee. Victoria is also a non-executive director of the Artemis Alpha Fund plc.