ZURICH, SWITZERLAND--Myriad Group AG (SIX Swiss Exchange: MYRN), the company creating and connecting communities across mobile and TV, today announced that it will propose Mr Mauro Saladini (Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Kudelski Group) as a new non-executive member of Myriad’s Board of Directors, and subsequent election at the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders on 15 August 2013.
In addition it also announced that Richard Francis will step down from his current position on the Myriad Board but continue as Myriad’s Chief Financial Officer.
“We are very excited about Mauro’s nomination to the Myriad Board of Directors. Mauro has extensive financial and strategic experience in our industry and a well established reputation in the market”, comments Erik Hansen, Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Since February 2003, Mauro Saladini acts as Executive Vice President, Member of the Executive Board and Chief Financial Officer of the Kudelski Group. From 1997 to 2003 he served first as a consultant and from 2001 as a partner of McKinsey & Co, where he was engaged on a wide range of management topics, focusing on corporate finance and strategy, in several sectors, including high-tech, telecom, media and financial services. Prior to this position, he worked in the Financial Services unit of Accenture and then set-up the Zurich branch of Thema Consulting.
Mauro Saladini holds a degree in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) as well as an MBA from INSEAD, France.
About Myriad
Myriad delivers consumer applications, messaging solutions, and embedded software to leading OEMs, mobile operators, and pay TV providers worldwide.
Our messaging services deliver email, instant messaging and social networking to tens of millions of users in Latin America, Asia and Africa. Working with some of the world’s most successful mobile phone operators, Myriad’s market leading services enable consumers to connect to Internet services they want to reach in simple and affordable ways. In many cases, Myriad’s services are providing them with their first experience of the Internet.
Our market proven and innovative connected home solutions are found in billions of mobile phones and tens of millions of set-top boxes and Blu-ray players. Myriad is now driving the convergence of mobile, tablets and TV having created a suite of exciting connected home solutions including app stores for the TV, media sharing and simple access to social networking services within a multi-device, multi-screen connected home environment.
We operate worldwide, with offices in Switzerland, France, UK, USA, Canada, Mexico, India, UAE, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, Myriad is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX Symbol: MYRN).
For more information please visit our website: www.myriadgroup.com. You can also follow us on twitter@MyriadGroup and view our YouTube Channel - YouTube.com/myriadgroupmarketing.
