The Brunner Investment Trust PLC directors announced the appointment of Jim Sharp to the board as a non-executive director with effect from 1 January 2014. Jim is a Partner in Sirius Equity LLP, which he co-founded in 2008, and he has been a non-executive director of James Cropper PLC since 2009. In accordance with the board's ongoing succession plans, Sir William Worsley will retire from the board and not seek re-election in March 2014.