The Scottish Investment Trust PLC announced that Jane Lewis and Mick Brewis have been appointed non-executive directors of the company with effect from 14 December 2015. Jane Lewis is an investment trust specialist who, until August 2013, was a director of corporate finance and broking at Winterflood Investment Trusts. Prior to this, she worked at Henderson Global Investors and Gartmore Investment Management Limited in investment trust business development and at WestLB Panmure as an investment trust broker.

Jane is a non-executive director of Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Companies Investment Trust Plc, Phaunos Timber Fund Limited and F&C Capital and Income Investment Trust PLC. Mick Brewis was an investment manager at Baillie Gifford, retiring in April 2014 after 29 years at the firm, 21 of them as a partner. He was a stock-picker throughout his time there, responsible for managing UK equity portfolios before heading the North American Equities team from 1995 onwards.