Witan chairman Henderson to retire after more than 30 years on board

Search for replacement commences

Harry Henderson, chairman of the £1.8bn Witan Investment Trust and descendant of the fund's founding family, has announced he will retire at its next annual general meeting in 2020.

Henderson was appointed as a director of the trust in 1988 and became its chairman in March 2003. He will retire from the board at Witan's AGM in 2020 but the search for a replacement will begin imminently. Under the leadership of senior independent director Tony Watson, a board committee will commence the search, and a chairman designate will be appointed to the board in 2019, becoming chairman following Henderson's departure the following year. After Henderson was appointed as chairman in March 2003, he held a strategic review which resulted in the trust moving from being a global f...