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GreenBank Capital Inc (2)
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GreenBank Capital appoints Neill as director

2023-01-05 10:06 ET - News Release

Mr. Terry Pullen reports

GREENBANK ANNOUNCES SIR BOB NEILL TO JOIN BOARD OF DIRECTORS

GreenBank Capital Inc. has appointed Sir Robert James MacGillivray Neill as a director of GreenBank with effect from Jan. 4, 2023.

Sir Bob is a British barrister and Conservative Party politician. He is the current chairman of the United Kingdom justice select committee following a noteworthy political career to date.

Summary and key achievements:

  • Sir Bob gained an honours degree in law at the London School of Economics and subsequently had a successful career as a barrister, with a speciality in complex criminal cases and trial advocacy. He is also a member of the Irish Bar. He was elected to Parliament for Bromley and Chislehurst at a by-election in 2006. He has been returned at every election since.
  • During his first term in Parliament, he was promoted to the Opposition front bench, serving first as shadow minister for London and then additionally as shadow minister for local government and planning.
  • Sir Bob served in the coalition government from 2010 to September, 2012, as parliamentary under secretary of state at the Department of Communities and Local Government, having ministerial responsibility for local government and planning, the fire service, the London Olympics legacy, and the Thames gateway regeneration scheme. He had a major role in reforms to local government powers and finance, including the Localism Act 2011, planning and regeneration (the first national planning policy framework), and local government and fire service procurement and pensions. He was subsequently vice-chairman of the Conservative Party for local government.
  • In 2015, he was elected on a cross-party basis as chair of the justice select committee, which scrutinizes the work of the Ministry of Justice and of the Law Officers Department and their agencies, including the prison and probation services, the courts and tribunals service, the Crown prosecution service, and the serious fraud office.
  • He is an officer of several all-party parliamentary groups at Westminster, including those for Gibraltar, London and wholesale financial markets. He has also served on the parliamentary assembly of the council of Europe. He was knighted for political services in the 2020 New Year Honours list.
  • He has experience as a non-executive director in both the private and public sectors, including chairing the risk management committee of a health authority.

Sir Bob regularly broadcasts, writes and speaks at conferences, in the United Kingdom and overseas, on political, legal and business issues.

Sir Bob said, "I am delighted to join the team at GreenBank Capital, and look forward to working with them to develop new and exciting projects in established and emerging sectors, welding together innovative business models, developing technologies and established expertise to help meet the commercial, environmental and social challenges of the future."

Terry Pullen, chief executive officer of GreenBank, said: "We feel Sir Bob's appointment is a huge vote of confidence and adds credibility to our vision for GreenBank Capital's future. His vast legal, commercial and political experience, along with his professionally honed media talent, will immediately deliver broader expertise and options for us to communicate our progress, and interact with existing and new shareholders."

About GreenBank Capital Inc.

GreenBank is a publicly traded company that has a flexible low-cost overhead structure designed to maximize profitability. The company's management is based in Toronto and London, and is used to working across borders remotely. GreenBank invests in multisector undervalued public and private growth companies focused on building consistent capital appreciation for its shareholders. The company's model of remote working, utilizing dynamic office space and flexible contracts -- rather than large, fixed costs -- establishes GreenBank as a global business for the future.

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