Nikko Principal Investments

15 April 2005

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Nikko Principal Investments Ltd (NPIL) has appointed Mark Gomar as a principal with immediate effect. Gomar will take prime responsibility to develop NPIL's investment activities in Continental Europe. Gomar joins from WestLB where he has been working on the bank's exit from its principal finance private equity portfolio. Most recently he has been on secondment as executive chairman of Swan Group Plc, the holding company for Mid Kent Water. Since this appointment, he has overseen a strategic restructuring of the group, leading the way for the successful sale of Mid Kent Water to funds managed by Hastings Fund Management in February 2005. Prior to this, Gomar was head of special investments & corporate advisory for WestLB, which included the bank's proprietary investment activities in distressed debt and active turnarounds. He spent two years in Singapore as head of Asian operations of WestLB's global emerging markets division, and before that, as managing director of West Merchant Bank, had responsibility for the bank's capital markets activities in Russia and Eastern Europe. His City career began in 1984 at Swiss Bank Corporation (the forerunner of UBS) and he also spent three years at Charterhouse Bank.