Biome Technologies plc announced that Martin Rushton-Turner has been appointed a Non-Executive Director of the company and will join the Board with immediate effect. Mr. Rushton-Turner is, and has been, a significant investor in Biome since 2010 and currently holds 13.31% of the voting rights in the Company and approximately 35% of the Company's Convertible Loan Notes. He retired from Swiss Reinsurance Group ("Swiss Re") in 2014 and has since focused his attention and resources on a number of early-stage companies and investments where his roles have included being an adviser, chairman or director.

Mr. Rushton-Turner worked at Swiss Re from 2001 to 2014, initially as Head of the Strategic Transactions Group which focused on transactions between Swiss Re and corporate and financial institutions, from 2008 to 2010 as Head of Legacy, the division formed to house and manage down the "bad bank" businesses of Swiss Re, and thereafter as Special Advisor to the Swiss Re Group CFO. Prior to Swiss Re, Mr. Rushton-Turner was Head of the Debt Structuring Group at Greenwich NatWest, having joined NatWest in 1993. Mr. Rushton-Turner qualified as a chartered accountant at Coopers & Lybrand in 1990, as a Barrister in 1991 and as a New York attorney in 1992.

He holds an LLB from University College London (UCL) and is an Honorary Fellow of UCL.