– KAZAKHSTAN, Almaty – Freedom Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: FRHC), a multi-national diversified financial services holding company with a presence through its subsidiaries in 19 countries, today announced the additions of Andrew Gamble and Philippe Vogeleer to its Board as Independent Directors, effective May 28, 2024.
About Andrew Gamble
Mr. Gamble’s nearly 50-year legal and advisory career includes tenures in Asia, Africa, South America, and Europe, and he has led teams that have acted for the governments of Sierra Leone, Guyana, Mozambique, and Ethiopia. As a partner in the international American-British law firm Hogan Lovells, his legal career has involved advising banks and structuring financings for numerous international entities in the Middle East and CIS, including Kazakhstan.
While at Hogan Lovells Mr. Gamble held several senior management positions such as Head of International Banking, London Regional Managing Partner, member of the International Management Board, and Head of the Africa Practice, and he was instrumental in the opening of the firm’s offices in Moscow, Warsaw, Dubai and Johannesburg. He also served in Hogan Lovells’ Frankfurt office. He has deep financial sector expertise and was retained by the British Government to advise on the securitization of over £2 billion in loans to the higher education sector in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Gamble currently works as an independent consultant on corporate, legal, and finance matters, which includes serving as an independent director on several boards. He is on the board of Africa Credit Opportunities Limited and recently stepped down from the board of Zenith Bank (UK) Limited. He is chairman of the board of Grata International, a Swiss verein that acts as a holding company for the various offices of a regional law firm focused on the former Soviet Union and neighboring countries.
Mr. Gamble’s charitable work has included serving as a director and trustee of ENT UK, and he has advised the Royal College of Surgeons of England in several capacities. He has authored, co-authored, contributed to, and edited numerous financial and legal publications. He earned his Bachelor of Arts Law, with Honours, from St. Catharine’s College in Cambridge and his professional qualifications at the College of Law, Guildford.
About Philippe Vogeleer
Mr. Vogeleer is a Chartered Director specializing in creating partnerships between corporations, governments, and international organizations. He has lived in ten countries and worked in over 100. He has managed teams ranging in size from one to over 3000, with corresponding profit and loss responsibility. Mr. Vogeleer started his career advising companies such as Telenor, Bertelsmann, and Orange for Deloitte before moving to various operational roles in mobile operators for Orange and Ooredoo in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He joined Vodafone Group in early 2012, where he originally handled negotiations as a corporate diplomat before advancing to work on investment partnerships with large multi-national corporations; global mobile network operators; public authorities in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; and with international organizations such as British International Investment, the European Investment Bank, the World Bank Group, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Recent successes include various European transactions; new mobile licenses in the Middle East and Africa; obtaining significant public subsidies to support the creation of R&D centers in Spain and Germany; the largest win for Vodafone in emerging markets in 25 years; and the largest deal between Vodafone and the World Bank Group ever. He now advises a small number of companies as a non-executive, teaches MBA students, and supports the work of various international charities including Global Citizen.
Mr. Vogeleer earned his Bachelor’s degree in law from UCL, Belgium; completed postgraduate courses in Telecoms Law at KUL, Belgium, and in competition law at King’s College in London, United Kingdom; and obtained a Master’s degree in Law, from UCL, Belgium; a Master’s degree in Media, from the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom; an Executive Master’s degree in business administration, from Insead (Cedep), France; and a Master’s degree in corporate governance from the Institute of Directors, in the United Kingdom.
About Freedom Holding Corp.
Freedom Holding Corp., a Nevada corporation, is a diversified financial services holding company conducting retail securities brokerage, securities trading, investment research, investment counseling, investment banking and underwriting services, mortgages, insurance, and commercial banking as well as several ancillary businesses which complement its core financial services businesses, all through its subsidiaries, operating under the name Freedom24 in Europe and Central Asia, and Freedom Capital Markets in the United States. Through its subsidiaries, Freedom Holding Corp. employs more than 6,000 people and is a professional participant in the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange, the Astana International Exchange, the Republican Stock Exchange of Tashkent, the Uzbek Republican Currency Exchange, and is a member of the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.
Freedom Holding Corp. is headquartered in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and has operations and subsidiaries in 19 countries, including Kazakhstan, the United States, Cyprus, Poland, Spain, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan, among others.
Freedom Holding Corp.’s common shares are registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and are traded under the symbol FRHC on the Nasdaq Capital Market, operated by Nasdaq, Inc.
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