IXICO plc announced the appointment of Grant Nash as the Company's Chief Financial Officer. Grant will join the Company on 29 thApril 2019 and it is anticipated that he will join the board in due course. Grant joins IXICO from the UK Biobank, a national and international health research data resource, where he has been Finance Director since 2014. Whilst with the UK Biobank, Grant was also responsible for the UK Biocentre, which provides biomedical sample processing and archiving logistics to large-scale research studies. Conor Woolfson who assumed the role of interim Head of Finance in December 2018, will continue to perform these duties prior to Grant's appointment, at which time he will then continue in his role of Group Financial Controller, reporting to Grant.