Weiss Korea Opportunity Fund announced that it has appointed Wendy Dorey to the Board of the Company as Non-Executive Director, effective immediately. Mrs. Dorey also joins the Audit and the Management & Engagement committees of the Board. Effective immediately, Mrs. Dorey replaces Robert King as Chair of the Management & Engagement Committee, who will step down from his role as Non-Executive Director to the Board of the Company on 30 September 2022.

Dorey is an experienced professional in the financial services industry, with key competencies in business strategy, financial regulation, risk management and investment marketing and distribution. She is currently a Director of Dorey Financial Modelling, an investment consulting firm, a Commissioner for the Guernsey Financial Services Commission, and a Non-Executive Director for Schroders (CI) Limited. Dorey has over 20 years' industry experience working for asset managers, pension consultants and retail banks in the UK, Guernsey and France.

She has worked for a number of leading asset managers: BNY Mellon, M&G Asset Management, Friends Ivory & Sime and Robert Fleming/Save & Prosper. She has also consulted to the Defined Contribution Consulting arm of the Punter Southall Group, and obtained retail banking experience at Lloyds bank and Le Credit Lyonnais. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and qualified as a Chartered Director in 2020.

She is also currently Chair of the Guernsey Branch of the Institute of Directors.