Hansard Global Plc announced the appointment of Jose Ribeiro as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company with effect from December 2, 2019. Jose has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry globally having been a board member in several jurisdictions around the world. He started his insurance career with American International Group(ALICO) in 1986 as a Life and Pensions actuary and spent the first 16 years of his career working in the Life and non- Life (re) insurance industries working with subsidiaries of AIG and Munich Re, performing a variety of senior roles (including CEO, Chief Actuary, Pension Fund manager, Regional Director for Employee Benefits, etc.) in Europe, the US and Latin America. Since 2002 Jose has had a variety of roles including CEO for Latin America and the Caribbean at Willis, Director for International Markets at Lloyd's of London and a member of its executive team where he was responsible for overseeing the Lloyd's trading platforms in China, Japan and Singapore, and Managing Director and Board Member for Asia-Pacific at A.M. Best (Credit Rating Agency).