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Hannah Blackmore is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and has been with Henderson Global Investors since qualifying in July 2014. Hannah is the appointed Company Secretary to two of the Henderson managed Investment Trusts and provides full support to the Trusts Boards and Committees. Hannah also assists the Director and Head of Investment Trusts in managing the Offshore Company Secretary for a Jersey domiciled Investment Company.

Starting out her Company Secretarial career with Capita Sinclair Henderson, Hannah worked mainly with Investment Trust and Venture Capital Trust clients. Hannah subsequently held a number of other Company Secretarial roles including Assistant Company Secretary at MetLife Assurance Limited, where she was part of the M&A project team when the company was sold to Rothesay Life Limited and Assistant Company Secretary at Integrated Financial Arrangements plc (Transact) where she oversaw the implementation of a Scheme of Arrangement to reorganise the Group and its subsidiary companies, amongst other corporate action projects.

Hannah has a particular interest in the progression of Company Secretarial as a profession and to that end is an Ambassador for the ICSA. Hannah has joint responsibility at Henderson with the other Company Secretaries for training three assistants within the Company Secretarial team.