Appointment of Nicola Horlick as Non-Exec Director

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4 August 2025

Hamak Gold Limited

("Hamak Gold" or the "Company")

Appointment of Nicola Horlick as Non-Executive Director

Hamak Gold Limited (LSE: HAMA), a company combining traditional gold exploration in West Africa with a Digital Asset Treasury Management strategy, is pleased to announce the appointment of Nicola Horlick as a Non-Executive Director. Nicola will also join both the Audit Committee and the Remuneration Committee of the Board.

Nicola Horlick is a prominent figure in the UK investment industry, with over 35 years of experience in institutional fund management, corporate governance, and financial innovation. She has been described in the British media as the "City superwoman" due to her high-profile career and pioneering success in leading major asset management businesses.

Nicola began her career at S.G. Warburg before moving to Morgan Grenfell Investment Management, where she became Managing Director and oversaw the management of multi-billion-pound institutional portfolios.  Over the following five years, funds under management quadrupled.

In 2004, she founded Bramdean Asset Management, specialising in alternative investments and private equity, and in 2013, founded Money&Co., a fintech lending platform focused on providing capital to UK SMEs from institutional and private investors. Nicola continues to serve as CEO of Money&Co. and remains active in the financial services sector, with board-level roles across multiple private companies.

Nicola's deep experience spans equities, fixed income, private capital, alternative assets, and retail and institutional fund distribution. She brings extensive boardroom knowledge and regulatory insight, having served in both executive and non-executive capacities, including as Chair and Committee Member of regulated financial services firms.

Nicola holds a degree in Jurisprudence from Balliol College, Oxford, and has consistently championed innovation, transparency, and diversity in the investment industry.

Nick Thurlow, Executive Chairman of Hamak Gold, commented:

"We are delighted to welcome Nicola to the Board.She brings deep institutional investment experience, extensive governance expertise, and a unique perspective as both an asset management leader and financial innovator. Her appointment strengthens our board at a pivotal time and reinforces our ambition to create long-term value for shareholders."

Nicola Horlick added:

"Hamak Gold is building a fascinating business, which I believe will be attractive to both institutional and private investors. In an uncertain world, alternative assets have provided diversification for fund managers who are constantly looking for investment opportunities that are uncorrelated with equity markets. I look forward to working with my new colleagues on the board of Hamak Gold and to helping to grow the business."

Regulatory Disclosures

Pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.13R, Nicola Karina Christina Horlick (aged 64) holds or has held the following directorships in the past five years:

Current directorships/partner roles:

●    Denmark Square Limited

●    Bramdean Asset Management LLP

●    Derby Street Films Limited

●    Derby Street Films II Limited

●    Derby Street Films III Limited

●    Castelnau Films Limited

●    DSF Writers Limited

●    DSF Writers II Limited

●    DSF Writers III Limited

●    Horlick Holdings Limited

●    Indigo Horlick Limited

●    Accelerating Clinical Trials Ltd

●    Anthony Nolan

●    Anthony Nolan Trading Limited

●    Wenknab Limited

●    Regenall Diagnostics Limited

●    Regenall Limited

●    Yes You Can Limited

●    The Childhood Trust

●    Derby Street Media Limited

●    Glentham Investments Limited

●    May Hotels Limited

Past directorships (within the last five years):

●    Glentham Capital Limited

●    GSL Healthcare Services Limited

●    Money&Co. Services Limited

Nicola Horlick does not hold any shares or options in the Company. However, in order to attract and retain outstanding talent at the Board level, the Company has granted Nicola 2.5 million warrants at an exercise of 5 pence per share. The warrants are exercisable for a period of two years from the date of this announcement and are subject to a one-year lock-in from this date.

For further information you are invited to view the Company's website at www.hamakgold.com or please contact:

About Hamak Gold Limited

Hamak Gold Limited (LSE: HAMA) is a UK listed company focussed on gold exploration in Africa and with a strategy of pursuing a BTC/ crypto treasury management policy. Through its LSE main board listing investors underweight crypto can get professional exposure to this asset class.