Calculus VCT appoints new chair creating all-female board

Current chair to step down

The board of the Calculus Venture Capital Trust has appointed Jan Ward as its chair when Michael O'Higgins steps down from the role later this year.

Ward will become a non-executive director of the Calculus VCT from 1 March and will chair the board after the AGM, which is currently scheduled for 4 July. Ward is a mechanical engineer and the founder/CEO of global nickel supplier Corrotherm International. She has previously been a director of Woman in Business International and was named the UK's most inspirational female entrepreneur in 2009, before receving a CBE for services to business in 2015. Calculus launches £10m 'zero initial fee' VCT offer Diane Seymour Williams, chair of the Neptune-Calculus Income and Growth VCT an...