TR Property investment trust promotes director to chair-elect

David Watson retires

The board of the TR Property investment trust will appoint senior independent director Kate Bolsover as chair in July as David Watson retires.

Bolsover joined the board of the 118-year-old trust in 2019. Her executive career was at Cazenove and JP Morgan Cazenove, where she was managing director of the mutual fund business, and later director of corporate communications.  She is currently chair of Fidelity Asian Values Trust, a director at Bellevue Healthcare trust and a non-executive director of Baillie Gifford. Her old position at TR Property will be replaced by Tim Gillbanks.  Watson is retiring after over a decade at the board, having become chair following the retirement of Hugh Seaborn in July 2020. He spent nine years...