Northern 2 VCT PLC announced that at a board meeting held on January 3, 2017, Simon Devonshire OBE was appointed to the board as a non-executive director and as a member of the company's audit, nomination and management engagement committees with immediate effect. Mr. Devonshire has extensive business experience in corporate leadership, financial governance, strategy, communications and sales and marketing. He has a portfolio of business interests including being an entrepreneur in residence at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and a non-executive director of the Student Loans Company. He previously managed the business division of O2 UK for five years and was the founder and a director of Wayra Europe.