13 February 2023

DIGITAL 9 INFRASTRUCTURE PLC 

("D9", the "Company" or, together with its subsidiaries, the "Group") 

CHANGE OF SENIOR INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR

The Board of Directors of Digital 9 Infrastructure plc, a leading investor in the infrastructure of the internet, is pleased to announce that Lisa Harrington will succeed Keith Mansfield as Senior Independent Director of the Board with immediate effect. Keith Mansfield will remain a Non-Executive Director and the Chair of the Audit Committee of the Board.

Lisa joined the Board as a Non-Executive Director of the Company at IPO, and is a member of the Audit and Management Engagement Committees and Chair of the Nomination Committee. Lisa will bring extensive industry experience to the role gained from senior executive and non-executive roles, including at British Telecom ("BT") in 2007, where she spent 10 years in a range of leadership positions with her final role as Chief Customer Officer BT Group, reporting to the CEO. In 2021, Lisa also held the interim Managing Director role at Hyperoptic Ltd, a private equity backed fibre alternative network. Lisa is currently a Non-Executive Director of Post Office Ltd and Truespeed Communications Ltd and has previously held non-executive posts on the boards of Southern Water, West London NHS Mental Trust and Calisen plc (FTSE250). 

The Board is supportive of the FCA's diversity targets set out within Listing Rule 9.8.6(9) which is effective for financial accounting periods starting from 1 April 2022. Following a review of the roles undertaken by the individual Directors, the Board has elected to change its Senior Independent Director as part of its commitment to meeting these targets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY, PLEASE CONTACT: 

LEI: 213800OQLX64UNS38U92 

NOTES TO EDITORS 

Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (DGI9) is an investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange with ticker DGI9. The Company invests in the infrastructure of the internet that underpins the world's digital economy: digital infrastructure. 

The Investment Manager is Triple Point Investment Management LLP ("Triple Point") which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, with extensive experience in infrastructure, real estate and private credit, while keeping ESG principles central to its business mission. Triple Point's Digital Infrastructure team has over $300 billion in digital infrastructure transaction experience and in-depth relationships across global tech and global telecoms companies.  

The number 9 in Digital 9 Infrastructure comes from the UN Sustainable Development Goal 9, which focuses the fund on investments that increase connectivity globally and improve the sustainability of digital infrastructure. The assets DGI9 invests in typically comprise scalable platforms and technologies including (but not limited to) subsea fibre, data centres, terrestrial fibre and wireless networks. 

From its IPO in March 2021 and subsequent capital raises, DGI9 has raised total equity of £905 million and a revolving credit facility of £375 million, invested into the following data centres, subsea fibre, terrestrial fibre and wireless networks: 

·      Aqua Comms, a leading owner and operator of 20,000km of the most modern subsea fibre systems - the backbone of the internet - with a customer base comprising global tech and global telecommunications carriers (April 2021); 

·    Verne Global, the leading Icelandic data centre platform, with 40MW of high intensity computing solutions in operation or development, powered by 100% baseload renewable power (September 2021); 

·       EMIC-1, a partnership with Meta on a 10,000km fibre system from Europe to India (July 2021); 

·      SeaEdge UK1, a data centre and landing station for the North Sea Connect subsea cable, part of the North Atlantic Loop subsea network, improving connectivity between the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and North America (December 2021); 

·    Host Ireland, a leading enterprise broadband provider that owns and operates Fixed Wireless Access networks (April 2022); 

·      Verne London, a premier data centre based in central London, providing 6MW retail co-location services (April 2022); 

·     Verne Global Finland, a leading Finnish data centre and cloud infrastructure platform, with c.23MW of data centre capacity, powered by 100% renewable power and distributing surplus heat to district heating networks (July 2022). 

·     Giggle, a revolutionary Fibre to the Home network providing affordable broadband to social housing in Glasgow (July 2022); and 

·       Arqiva, the only UK national terrestrial television and radio broadcasting network in the United Kingdom - providing data, network and communications services, as well as a national IoT connectivity platform (October 2022). 

The Company's Ordinary Shares were admitted to trading on the Specialist Fund Segment of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange on 31 March 2021. It was admitted to the premium listing segment of the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority and migrated to trading on the premium segment of the Main Market on 30 August 2022.    

For more information on the Investment Manager please visit www.triplepoint.co.uk. For more information, please visit www.d9infrastructure.com.