PINT Pantheon Infrastructure Plc

11 February 2025

Pantheon Infrastructure plc

("PINT", the "Company")

Directorate Change

PINT is pleased to announce that Mr Anthony (Tony) Bickerstaff joins the PINT Board as a Non-Executive Director today.

Tony has had a successful executive and non-executive career and is an experienced finance professional with commercial, strategic and financial expertise across the infrastructure, energy, utilities, transportation and logistics sectors. Tony also has significant experience of working with the Government in infrastructure investment and low-carbon energy generation.  

Vagn Ove Sørensen, Chairman of PINT, said: "On behalf of the Board, I am delighted to welcome Tony as a Non-Executive Director of PINT. An experienced CFO and Non-Executive Director, Tony brings a unique combination of skills and expertise that are highly complementary to PINT, and the role of Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee in particular. We all look forward to working closely with him during this exciting period for the Company."

From February 2022 until recently, Tony was the CFO of Cadent Gas Limited, the UK's largest gas distribution network. He became a Non-executive Director of Wincanton plc in September 2020, and Chair of the Audit Committee in March 2021. Prior to this, Tony was the CFO of Costain Group plc, the FTSE All-Share infrastructure solutions company. He was also a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee at Low Carbon Contracts Company Limited, set up to administer the Government's investment in the generation of low carbon electricity, from November 2014 to October 2020. Before that, Tony held a number of senior management and financial positions at the Taylor Woodrow Group and served as the Finance Director for the Construction division between 2001 and 2006.

Tony is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).

On appointment to PINT, he will join the Audit & Risk Committee, the Nomination Committee, the Remuneration Committee, the Sustainability Committee and the Management Engagement Committee. Subject to his election at the 2025 Annual General Meeting, Tony will become the Chair of the Audit & Risk Committee, when Patrick O'Donnell Bourke, the current Chair of the Committee, will take on the role of the Chair of the Board.

There are no other details that are required to be disclosed under 6.4.8R of the Listing Rules.

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Notes to editors

PINT

Pantheon Infrastructure PLC is a closed-ended investment company and an approved UK Investment Trust, listed on the London Stock Exchange's Main Market. Its Ordinary Shares trade under the ticker 'PINT'. The independent Board of Directors of PINT have appointed Pantheon, one of the leading private markets investment managers globally, as investment manager. PINT aims to provide exposure to a global, diversified portfolio of high-quality infrastructure assets through building a portfolio of direct co-investments in infrastructure assets with strong defensive characteristics, typically benefitting from contracted cash flows, inflation protection and conservative leverage profiles.

Further details can be found at www.pantheoninfrastructure.com

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Pantheon

Pantheon has been at the forefront of private markets investing for more than 40 years, earning a reputation for providing innovative solutions covering the full lifecycle of investments, from primary fund commitments to co-investments and secondary purchases, across private equity, real assets and private credit.

The firm has partnered with more than 690 clients, including institutional investors of all sizes as well as a growing number of private wealth advisers and investors, with approximately $71bn in discretionary assets under management (as of September 30, 2024).

Leveraging its specialized experience and global team of professionals across Europe, the Americas and Asia, Pantheon invests with purpose and leads with expertise to build secure financial futures.

Pantheon was one of the first private equity investors to sign up to the Principles for Responsible Investments ("PRI") in 2007 and has used these principles as a framework to develop its sustainability policy across all its investment activities. Since becoming a signatory, Pantheon has remained highly engaged with the PRI and has been heavily focused on sustainability integration, both through its involvement with associates and industry bodies, and through its integration of ESG analysis into its investment process.