Regulatory News:
Vivendi (Paris:VIV) and Gameloft announce that the Gameloft
Shareholders’ Meeting held today appointed five members proposed by
Vivendi to the Board of Directors of Gameloft, a leading
international digital and social gaming publisher and
developer.
Vivendi, which owns 95.94% of the share capital and 95.77% of
the voting rights of Gameloft following the completion on June 15,
2016, of the public tender offer announced on February 18, 2016,
wanted to change the board’s composition to reflect the company’s
new shareholder structure.
The five new members of the Gameloft Board of Directors are:
- Sébastien Bolloré, Chairman of Omnium
Bolloré, Director and Chairman of Blue Solutions USA;- Frédéric
Crépin, Member of the Vivendi Management Board, General Counsel of
Vivendi and Canal+ Group;- Francine Mayer, Chairman of Canal+
Régie;- Stéphane Roussel, Member of the Vivendi Management Board,
COO of Vivendi; and- Maxime Saada, CEO of Canal+ Group, Chairman
and CEO of Dailymotion.
Following today’s Shareholders’ Meeting, the Board of Directors
held a meeting at which it appointed Stéphane Roussel as Chairman
and CEO of Gameloft.
In a message sent to all Gameloft employees, Stéphane Roussel
said: “I start my role today with an ambitious plan: to combine
your creative passion with Vivendi’s to accelerate Gameloft’s
development. You will be a fully-integrated member of the Vivendi
family while maintaining your distinctiveness and originality.”
Vivendi will meet next week with Gameloft’s senior management in
Paris to jointly discuss the company’s main strategic directions
and make operational decisions.
About VivendiVivendi is an integrated media and content
group. The company operates businesses throughout the media value
chain, from talent discovery to the creation, production and
distribution of content. The main subsidiaries of Vivendi comprise
Canal+ Group and Universal Music Group. Canal+ is the leading
pay-TV operator in France, and also serves markets in Africa,
Poland and Vietnam. Canal+ operations include Studiocanal, a
leading European player in production, sales and distribution of
film and TV series. Universal Music Group is the world leader in
recorded music, music publishing and merchandising, with more than
50 labels covering all genres. A separate division, Vivendi
Village, brings together Vivendi Ticketing (ticketing in the UK,
the U.S and France), MyBestPro (experts counseling), Watchever
(subscription video-on-demand), Radionomy (digital radio), the
Paris-based concert venue L’Olympia, the CanalOlympia venues in
Africa and the Theatre de l‘Oeuvre in Paris. With 3.5 billion
videos viewed each month, Dailymotion is one of the biggest video
content aggregation and distribution platforms in the world.
www.vivendi.com, www.cultureswithvivendi.com
About GameloftA leading digital and social game
publisher, Gameloft® has established itself as one of the top
innovators in its field since 2000. Gameloft creates games for all
digital platforms and with an audience of 147 million monthly users
offers via Gameloft Advertising Solutions a unique level of
visibility and involvement to advertisers. Gameloft operates its
own established franchises such as Asphalt®, Order & Chaos,
Modern Combat and Dungeon Hunter and also partners with major
rights holders including Universal, Illumination Entertainment,
Disney®, Marvel®, Hasbro®, Fox Digital Entertainment, Mattel® and
Ferrari®. Gameloft distributes its games in over 100 countries and
employs 6,000 people worldwide.Gameloft is listed on NYSE Euronext
Paris (NYSE Euronext: GFT.PA, Bloomberg: GFT FP, Reuters: GLFT.PA).
Gameloft’s sponsored Level 1 ADR (ticker: GLOFY) is traded OTC in
the US.
BIOGRAPHIES
-Sébastien BolloréChairman of Omnium Bolloré, Director
and Chairman of Blue Solutions USA
Sébastien Bolloré studied management at ISEG and then at UCLA
(California). Sébastien Bolloré advises the Group on new media and
technological developments. He is Director and Chairman of Blue LA
Inc, in charge of the development of electric batteries for use in
cars and buses in the USA, and is an expert in the content
industry.
Current positions:
. Development Manager, Director and Chairman
of Blue LA Inc. Chairman of Omnium Bolloré. Director of Blue
Solutions. Director of Bolloré. Director of Bolloré Participations.
Director of Financière V. Director of Omnium Bolloré. Director of
Société Industrielle et Financière de l’Artois. Director of
Sofibol. Permanent representative of Plantations des Terres Rouges
on the Supervisory Board of Compagnie du Cambodge. Member of the
Supervisory Board of Sofibol. Permanent representative of Socfrance
on the Board of Directors of Financière de l’Odet. Director of
BigBen Interactive
-Frédéric CrépinMember of the Vivendi Management Board,
General Counsel of Vivendi and Canal+ Group
Frédéric Crépin is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes
Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and holds a master’s degree in
European Business Law (University of Paris II - Panthéon -Assas), a
master’s degree in labor and employment law (University of Paris X
- Nanterre) and a Master of American Law (LL.M.) from New York
University School of Law.Admitted to the bars of both Paris and New
York, Frédéric Crépin began his career working as an attorney at
several law firms. From 1995 to 1998, he was an attorney at Siméon
& Associés in Paris and then, from 1999 to 2000, he was an
associate at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York.From July
2000 to August 2005, Frédéric Crépin served as a Special Advisor to
the General Counsel and as a member of the legal department of
Vivendi Universal before being appointed Senior Vice President and
Head of the legal department of Vivendi in August 2005. In
parallel, in July 2008, he was also appointed to the Board of
Directors of Activision Blizzard, a position he held until October
2013. During this period, he served as Chairman of the
Activision-Blizzard Governance and Nominating Committee and as a
member of its Human Resources Committee. In June 2014, he was named
General Counsel and Company Secretary of the Vivendi Group. In
September 2015, he also became General Counsel and Company
Secretary of Canal+ Group. He was appointed to the Vivendi
Management Board on November 10, 2015.Frédéric Crépin is a lecturer
at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.
-Francine MayerChairman of Canal+ Régie
Francine Mayer has spent her entire career in the advertising
agencies industry: RMC Group, France Television advertising, and
the NRJ Group. She joined the Canal+ Group in 1997 as an Account
Director at Canal+ before being appointed Marketing Director in
2002. In October 2010, she was appointed Deputy Director of Canal+
Régie. In 2010, she received a Master of Business Administration
from INSEAD. In September 2016, she was appointed Chaiman of Canal+
Régie.
-Stéphane RousselMember of the Vivendi Management Board,
Chief Operating Officer of Vivendi
Stéphane Roussel is a graduate of the École des Psychologues
Praticiens de Paris.He began his career working for the Xerox group
from 1985 to 1997.From 1997 to 2004, he held positions within the
Carrefour group. He was first appointed Director of Human Resources
for hypermarkets in France, before becoming Director of Human
Resources Development for international business and then Director
of Human Resources France for the entire Carrefour group. From
2004-2009, he served as SFR’s Vice President of Human Resources.
From 2009 to 2012, Stéphane Roussel held the position of Executive
Vice President of Human Resources at Vivendi and served as a member
of the Board of Directors and the Compensation Committee of
Activision Blizzard, the world leader in video games, before being
appointed Chairman-Chief Executive Officer of SFR in June 2012, a
position he held until May 2013, at which time he joined Vivendi’s
General Management team.Stéphane Roussel was appointed to the
Vivendi Management Board on June 24, 2014. Since November 2015, he
has been Vivendi’s Chief Operating Offer, after serving as its
Senior Executive Vice President, Development and Organization,
since October 2014.
-Maxime SaadaCEO of Canal + Group, Chairman and CEO of
Dailymotion
Maxime Saada is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques
de Paris (1992) and holds an MBA from HEC Paris (1994).Maxime Saada
began his career in 1994 in the North American branch of the DATAR
(Delegation for Regional Planning and Regional Action), responsible
for promoting, prospecting and encouraging American investment in
France. In June 1999, he joined the consulting firm McKinsey &
Company where he led missions notably in the areas of
telecommunications and distribution for directorates-general.In May
2004, Maxime Saada resigned from McKinsey to become Director of
Strategy for Canal+ Group, of which he later became a member of the
Executive Committee and took responsibility for consumer studies
for the entire Canal+ Group. After participating in the merger
between TPS and Canal+ Group, in June 2007, Maxime Saada became
Marketing Director for Canal+ and a Director of Canalsat, and then
Commercial Director of Canal+ Group in October 2009.In January
2011, he was appointed Deputy Managing Director of Canal+ Group, in
charge of distribution, then, in April 2013, he became Deputy
Managing Director of Canal + Group, in charge of editing the pay
channels.Since July 2015, he has served as the CEO of Canal +
Group.In January 2016, he was appointed as the Chairman and CEO of
Dailymotion, while maintaining his position as CEO of Canal+
Group.
Pictures available upon request.
View source
version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160629006187/en/
Vivendi
Telefonica Brasil (NYSE:VIV)
Historical Stock Chart
From Feb 2024 to Mar 2024
Telefonica Brasil (NYSE:VIV)
Historical Stock Chart
From Mar 2023 to Mar 2024