Witan appoints Polar's Rogoff as non-exec director

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Daniel Flynn
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Witan Investment trust has announced that Ben Rogoff, portfolio manager of the Polar Capital Technology trust, will join its board as a non-executive director.

In its half year results, Witan said Rogoff (pictured) will join from 1 October, with chairman Harry Henderson claiming that the decision was taken as a result of the increasingly disruptive impact of technology. Henderson said: "The disruptive impact of technology has increased the importance of understanding these trends and assessing how our investment managers factor them into the construction of their portfolios. "Ben's 18 year experience in the technology sector, in addition to knowledge of the investment trust sector, will be very helpful in this regard and I look forward to we...

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