Press Release, London UK
8th February 2023

Small Cap Awards 2023 JUDGING PANEL ANNOUNCEMENT

Awards Chair, Gervais Williams, Head of Equities at Premier Miton Investors announces judging panel for the 2023 Small Cap Awards

The Small Cap Awards is an annual opportunity to recognise outstanding achievement focused on smaller quoted companies.

The Awards ceremony will take place on the 15th June 2023 at The Montcalm Hotel in Central London. The Awards celebrate companies and participants in the sub-£350m market cap quoted company sector on January 1st 2022 or on first day of listing across various categories.

Since it started in mid-2012, the Small Cap Club has successfully enabled leaders and participants in the small-cap sector to meet regularly, based on the premise that meeting people builds trust and creates new areas of thinking and opportunity, and the regular networking events have gone from strength to strength.

This year the Small Cap Awards, in association with Master Investor, are delighted to announce support from Network sponsors Hill Dickinson LLP, a leading international commercial law firm and headline sponsors, haysmacintyre, an award winning firm of chartered accountants and tax advisors who were supporting the awards for the first time this year. Further, valuable support was provided by Aquis, one of only two regulated equity exchanges in the UK, Guild Financial Advisors, an independent corporate finance advisory business, Share Registrars, a CREST enabled registrar, CrowdX, helping transform the growth potential of private companies and The Investor Relations Society, the UK's professional body for investor relations practitioners. The awards are organised by Master Investor, which specialises in connecting companies and investors.

The nominations will be selected by a judging panel comprised of leaders in the Small Cap sector and is Chaired by Gervais Williams, Head of Equities at Premier Miton Group Plc.

The judging panel consists of:

(Chair) Gervais Williams

Head of Equities at Premier Miton Group Plc, and with him:

Lucy Bloomfield

Deputy Fund Manager, Canaccord Genuity Fund Management

Richard Gill

Head of Research at Align Research

Alexandra Lindsay

Investment Director, Maven Capital Partners UK LLP

Judith Mackenzie

Partner & Head of Public Equity at Downing LLP

Charlotte Meyrick

UK Equities Fund Manager at Aviva Investors

Miles Nolan

Partner and Director, Sterling Investments & MI Sterling Select Companies Fund

Ivan Sedgwick

Investment Director, LGB & Co

Hugo Vaux

Fund Manager Guinness Asset Management

Dominic Weller

Fund Manager at Octopus Investments

The winners in each category will be announced on Thursday 15th June 2023 at a black-tie event held at The Montcalm Hotel, Marble Arch, 2, Wallenberg Place, Marylebone, London, W1H 7TN and will celebrate success for UK listed Small Caps.

The event will be attended by institutions, fund managers, brokers, company directors, entrepreneurs and advisors, creating a chance for all attendees to network with those who have shown exceptional growth and performance in the small cap environment over the last 12 months.