Arden Partners receives FCA approval for Steve Douglas’s appointment to board as Group Finance Director

Maria Nikolova

The institutional stockbroking company confirms Steve Douglas’s appointment with immediate effect.

Institutional stockbroking company Arden Partners plc (LON:ARDN) has earlier today announced that it has received the approval of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for the appointment of Steve Douglas to the Company’s board as Group Finance Director. Arden Partners therefore confirms Steve Douglas’s appointment with immediate effect.

Steve Douglas

Steve Douglas’s appointment was initially announced on November 1, 2018. He joined the Corporate Finance team at Arden in 2004 and became Head of Corporate Finance in 2014. He has been part of the senior management team which has led the significant investments made across every department as the Company has been restructured over the last 18 months.

Mr Douglas is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, having qualified with Deloitte & Touche in 1998 and is a Chartered member of the Securities Institute.

Back in November, Arden Partners also announced the appointment of Mark Ansell as Chairman of the Board with immediate effect. Mr Ansell has been an independent Non-executive Director of the Company since December 2010 and assumed the role of interim Chairman on May 24, 2018.

Also back in November, the company announced the appointment of Alistair Currie as an independent Non-executive Director, such appointment to take effect immediately upon relevant regulatory approval being received.

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