The board of Aberdeen Diversified Income and Growth Trust plc announced the appointment of Anna Troup and Trevor Bradley as independent non-executive Directors of the company with effect from 1 August 2019. Both Directors were appointed after a search conducted by an independent recruitment consultancy. Anna Troup qualified as a lawyer with Slaughter and May and has been employed in the financial services industry since 1997, having spent over 10 years at Goldman Sachs and more than 12 years as an investment management professional, most recently as head of UK Bespoke Solutions at Legal & General Investment Management. She is also an independent non-executive director of T Bailey Fund Services. Trevor Bradley was a partner and member of the Management Board at Ruffer LLP. He was responsible for growing and leading the firm's institutional investment business and managed over £1 billion of multi-asset portfolios for pension funds, charities and other institutions. Prior to Ruffer, Trevor was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and a UK equity portfolio manager at Mercury Asset Management. The board further advised that Jim Grover is retiring as a Director of the company on 6 September 2019. As previously highlighted in the company's announcement on 25 September 2018, James Long will stand down as Chairman and retire from the Board at the next AGM in February 2020. Davina Walter will be appointed Chairman of the Company at the conclusion of the AGM. Julian Sinclair will succeed Davina Walter as Senior Independent Director.