Exercise of Share Options, Director Dealing & TVR

Celebrus Technologies plc

Exercise of Share Options and Director Dealing

Transfer of Treasury Shares

and TVR

Celebrus Technologies plc (AIM: CLBS, "the Group", "Celebrus"), the AIM-listed data solutions provider, announces the transfer from treasury of 377,325 ordinary shares of 2p each ("Ordinary Shares") pursuant to the exercise of employee share options ("Share Options") and the subsequent acquisition by the Company of 70,000 of such Ordinary Shares back into Treasury at a price of 275 pence per share on 28 October 2024.

Director Dealing

Bill Bruno and Ash Mehta have participated in the above exercise of Share Options, exercising 153,721 and 73,883 Share Options, respectively held under the terms of the Celebrus Technologies plc Long-Term Investment Plan.  Following the exercises they have both sold sufficient Ordinary Shares to cover their tax liabilities, being 67,040 and 34,383 Ordinary Shares respectively. Following the above transactions Bill Bruno holds 153,681 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.39 per cent. of the Company's total voting rights, and Ash Mehta holds 120,070 Ordinary Shares, representing 0.30 per cent. of the Company's total voting rights.  The option exercise price was £0.02 per share with shares sold at 275p per share.  Further details are set out below.

Total Voting Rights

Following the above transaction the Company advises that its issued share capital stands at 40,431,453 Ordinary Shares, with 685,884 Ordinary Shares held in treasury. Consequently, the total voting rights of the Company is 39,745,569.

The above voting rights figure of 39,745,569 may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

About Celebrus Technologies plc

As a disruptive data technology platform, Celebrus is focused on improving the relationships between brands and consumers via better data. Celebrus redefines what digital identity verification means to power both next-level marketing and fraud prevention use cases. Deployed across 30+ countries throughout the financial services, healthcare, retail, travel, and telecommunications sectors, Celebrus automatically captures, contextualises, and activates consumer behavioral data in live-time across all digital channels. Through the addition of behavioral biometrics and AI, Celebrus empowers brands to detect and prevent fraud before it occurs. To ensure that brands can begin to improve those relationships quickly, Celebrus Cloud activates the Celebrus platform efficiently for brands in a single-tenant, private cloud capacity. 

The Group has offices in the UK, USA, and India with key talent in all markets to drive the growth of the business. Celebrus is fully compliant with all major data privacy regulations and the Group is accredited to ISO27001: Information Security Management.

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