Directorate Change

Date: 27 July 2022

iShares VII plc

(the "Company")

Directorate Changes

The board of  the Company (the "Board") wishes to announce that, with effect from 27 July 2022, Mr Paul McNaughton, Mr Barry O'Dwyer and Mr Paul McGowan have resigned as a non-executive directors of the Company.  Mr William McKechnie, Ms Jessica Irschick, Ms Ros O'Shea and Ms Deirdre Somers remain as non-executive directors of the Company. 

Mr Paul McNaughton also resigned as Chair of the Company with effect from 27 July 2022, with Mr William McKechnie appointed as Chair with effect from 27 July 2022.

The Board also wishes to announce the appointment of Mr Padraig Kenny as a non-executive director of the Company, with effect from 27 July 2022.

Padraig Kenny, aged 62 (Irish):  

Mr Kenny has 35 years experience in the financial services industry, of which 30 at the level of Managing Director and Chief Executive. Starting in aviation finance, Mr Kenny focused on the Asset Management and Securities Services industries, for a range of leading international banks - Irish, North American and European. Major responsibilities included institutional portfolio management; entry to international markets for Bank of Ireland Asset Management; establishment or transformation of the Global Securities Services businesses in Ireland of Bankers Trust (US) and Royal Bank of Canada, both focused on servicing the UCITS market for regulated investment funds; and the establishment and organic and non-organic expansion in Europe and the US of the Asset Management business of Unicredit Group. Throughout, Mr Kenny held positions that were subject to deep local and international regulatory oversight, and subject to a wide range of corporate and investment fund governance frameworks. Mr Kenny is now focused on Business Transformation Leadership.

Mr Kenny graduated in Law from University College Dublin; qualified professionally in Ireland as a Solicitor; received a Professional Diploma in Corporate Governance from the UCD Smurfit Business School; earned an MSc from UCD Smurfit Business School; and is a former Chairman of the Irish Funds Industry Association.

Mr. Padraig Kenny

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Mr Kenny has nothing further to declare in relation to paragraph 9.6.13 of the UK Listing Authority Listing Rules.

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