Ideagen PLC announced the appointment of Graham Harrop to the board as a Non-Executive Director with immediate effect. Graham will serve as the company's independent Non-Executive director and sit on the remuneration and audit committees. Graham has significant senior executive experience within the IT industry having worked for a number of Nasdaq listed software companies including Informix, Oracle and Microsoft. Graham held a number of senior positions in Microsoft including Director of the UK Government Business where he was responsible for annual revenues of approximately $500 million and led a number of highly strategic sales campaigns. Since 2009 Graham has worked as a consultant in IT procurement to both the government and to industry, and has contributed to a number of important research papers on the future of IT in UK government. Within the last 5 years Graham acted as a director of Koios Group and is currently a director of CTPR. Aside from the aforementioned, Graham Harrop has not held any other Directorships within the past five years and there are no other disclosures required pursuant to paragraph 18 of Appendix 1 of the PLUS Rules for Issuers.