DIGITAL 9 INFRASTRUCTURE PLC

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

DIRECTORATE CHANGE

The Company is pleased to announce the appointment of Gailina Liew to the Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director and member of the Company's Management Engagement and Risk Committees with effect from 1 July 2023 and following an induction process.

Gailina has an extensive legal, operations and international business background and brings more than 20 years of board governance experience across listed companies, investment trusts, pensions, venture capital, regulatory and economic development agencies. Gailina is a former non-executive director of JP Morgan Global Convertibles Income Fund Limited and general counsel of a listed molecular diagnostics company.  Her current roles include non-executive director appointments to the boards of Digital Jersey Limited, Medicxi Ventures Management (Jersey) Limited, TVM Life Science Innovation I Fund, and voting member of the Jersey Data Protection Authority and the committee of management for the Jersey Public Employee Pension Fund.

Gailina holds an Honours Bachelor of Science in molecular genetics from Trinity College, University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Laws from Western University. She also has a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg (Northwestern University) and the Schulich (York University) Schools of Business.

The appointment followed a formal recruitment process led by the Nomination Committee, with the support of an independent search firm. This process actively encouraged a diverse pool of candidates who could contribute specific skills and experience identified by the Board and would support the Board's commitment to diversity, in line with the FCA's targets under the Listing Rules.

Committee changes

Following Gailina's appointment to the Company's Risk Committee on 1 July 2023, Aaron Le Cornu will step down from the Risk Committee on the same date. Aaron will remain a member of the Audit Committee and Chair of the Management Engagement Committee. 

Phil Jordan, Chair, Digital 9 Infrastructure plc, commented:

"I look forward to welcoming Gailina as an Independent Non-Executive Director to the Board. Her broad cross-disciplinary knowledge, integrative thinking and strong legal and governance background will be of great value to the Company as we look to continue building upon our progress to date."

There are no other details that are required to be disclosed in respect of Rule 9.6.13 of the Financial Conduct Authority's Listing Rules.

ENDS

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: 

LEI: 213800OQLX64UNS38U92 

About Digital 9 Infrastructure plc: 

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 US$ 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 invest 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 four subsequent placings, DGI9 has raised total equity of £905 million and a revolving credit facility of £375 million, and invested into the following data centres, subsea 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 Iceland, 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); 

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

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

·   Verne Global Finland (previously Ficolo), 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 on the Company, please visit www.d9infrastructure.com.