Directorate Change

30 April 2010

Earthport plc ("Earthport" or "Company)

Board Change

Earthport announces the appointment of Vinode Ramgopal as a Non Executive Director with immediate effect.

Vinode Ramgopal is the CEO and Chairman of Marco Polo Group Ltd, a financial services firm focused on Global Emerging Markets. The Marco Polo Group has several companies including:

·; Marco Polo Network Inc. an electronic platform for trading securities listed on the exchanges of over 70 countries; and

·; Marco Polo Securities, a FINRA registered broker dealer, offering agency execution services in over 70 countries.

Marco Polo was founded in 2001 with Headquarters in New York and representative offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Brazil and South Africa.

Mr. Ramgopal was formerly Head of the Global Privatisation Group at Lehman Brothers and former Head of Lehman Brothers M&A practice for Asia (ex-Japan), Latin America and Eastern Europe. In the course of a 14-year career at Lehman, Mr. Ramgopal led teams that completed over $30 billion of cross border M&A transactions.

Mr. Ramgopal was educated at the London School of Economics and Merton College, Oxford.

The Board is delighted to welcome Vinode to Earthport plc. He has broad and deep experience across global emerging markets and cross border trading as well as building a global business. His ability and knowledge will be of great value to Earthport.

Matters for disclosure under paragraph (g) in Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules with respect to the appointment of Vinode Ramgopal as a Non Executive Director of Earthport plc:

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