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Appoints Annette Clancy and Jerry Randall as non-executive directors

LONDON, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Silence Therapeutics plc (London AIM: SLN) ('the Company') today announced changes to its Board of Directors as part of the company's plan for growth.

Effective today, Silence has appointed Annette Clancy and Jerry Randall as non-executive directors and Iain Rugheimer has resigned as a director of the Company.

Annette Clancy is joining the Board in her first non-executive director role. Ms. Clancy (53) is currently with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), where she has had a distinguished career spanning 30 years, and will be leaving GSK at the end of the year. She has 15 years experience in Business Development, leading GSK's global Transactions and Alliance Management teams for the past 3 years, and during her tenure she and her team have been responsible for concluding a large number of research, development and commercial business collaborations on behalf of GSK. Prior to her role in Business Development, Ms. Clancy held a number of positions in Clinical Research, R&D project management and Commercialization. Ms. Clancy has a BSc (Hons) Pharmacology from Bath University.

Jerry Randall has been Chief Financial Officer of Sinclair Pharmaceuticals plc since 2000 when he joined as part of a management buy-in team. Prior to this, Mr. Randall worked in corporate finance with Gambit Corporate Finance. Previously, Mr. Randall had been involved in two other buy-ins and acted as adviser to both private and quoted companies between 1993 and 2000, in both the capacity as nominated adviser and in practice with KPMG. During this period, Mr. Randall (43) was involved in a number of flotations and transactions on the Official List, Unlisted Securities Market and the Alternative Investment Market, as well as raising private equity. Mr. Randall qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG in 1990. Mr. Randall has a beneficial interest in 10,000 ordinary share
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