26^th August 2025

Maintel Holdings plc

("Maintel" or the "Company")

Appointment of Non-Executive Chair

Maintel Holdings Plc, a leading provider of cloud communications, connectivity and security managed communications services, announces the appointment of Stephen Beynon as Non-Executive Chair and to the Board of Directors of the Company, with immediate effect.

Stephen has over 30 years' experience leading telecoms and energy businesses, including running the B2B division of Virgin Media in the UK and Optus in Australia. Most recently, he was co-President of Eutelsat's Connectivity Business and CEO of its Low Earth Orbit satellite subsidiary OneWeb.

Clare Bates, Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company, commented:

"We are delighted with the appointment of Stephen as our Independent Non-Executive Chair.  He brings a wealth of commercial experience gained across complex B2B and B2C service and infrastructure-based businesses, and his leadership and guidance will be invaluable in our continued transformational journey".

Stephen Beynon will take over as Chair of the Nomination Committee and will become a member of the Remuneration Committee.

Additional Disclosures Required under the AIM Rules for Companies: 

Stephen David Rhys Beynon, aged 60, currently holds or has held the following directorship or partnerships in the past five years: 

Mr Beynon was an angel investor in, and non-executive director of an energy-tech start-up venture, LDR Realisations 2019 Ltd (then Labrador Ltd) between February 2017 and April 2022. The company entered administration in March 2019 and was dissolved in 2022, following an asset sale and creditors' voluntary liquidation. 

Stephen Beynon and persons closely associated (as defined under MAR) with Mr Beynon do not hold any shares in the Company. 

Save as disclosed above, there is no further information to be disclosed in respect of the above appointment pursuant to Rule 17 and Schedule 2 paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies. 

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Notes to editors

Maintel Holdings Plc ("Maintel") is a leading provider of cloud communications, security and connectivity managed communications services to the UK public and private sectors. Its services aim to help its clients create customer experiences, services and workplaces that inspire and empower people, with a focus across three strategic pillars of technology:

·   Unified Communications and Collaboration - Making customers' people more effective, efficient, and collaborative with UC&C technology. The core focus of this pillar is the high growth Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) market segment.

·     Customer Experience - Helping customers to acquire, delight and retain their customers using customer experience technology. The core focus of this pillar is the high growth Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS) market segment.

·   Security & Connectivity - Securely connecting customers' people, partners and guests to their cloud platforms, applications, and data with secure connectivity, and protecting their business from cyber threat. The core focus of this pillar is the high growth Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) and Security Service Edge (SSE) segments.

Maintel combines technology from its strategic, global technology vendor and carrier partners, with its own Intellectual Property, deployed from and managed by its own platforms, to provide seamless solutions that its customers can consume without the need for the internal skillset required to design, deploy and manage the technology themselves.

Maintel serves the whole market, with a particular focus on key verticals of Financial Services, Retail, Public Healthcare, Local Government, Higher Education, Social Housing and Utilities. Its core market constitutes organisations with between 250 and 10,000 employees in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors with headquarters in the UK.

The Company was founded in 1991 and it listed on London's AIM market in 2004 (AIM: MAI).