Zoo Digital Regulatory News (ZOO)

15 Jun 2009 07:30

ZOO DIGITAL GROUP PLC

("ZOO" or "the Group")

BOARD CHANGE

ZOO Digital Group plc, the creative media production and technology company, is pleased to announce the appointment of James Livingston as a non-executive director of the Group. James will be replacing Matt Taylor who is stepping down from the Board. 

James is portfolio manager at Foresight Group, a leading UK investment manager and significant shareholder of ZOO. He works closely with the boards of a number of UK SME companies as non-executive director of two and board observer of a further six companies. He was previously a Strategy Consultant at Deloitte where he advised businesses in the healthcare, public and technology sectors. He has a first class degree in Natural Sciences and Management from Cambridge University and holds the CIMA Advanced Diploma in Management Accounting.

Commenting on the Board changes Dr Christopher Honeyborne, Chairman, said:

'I am delighted to welcome James to the Board and am confident that his expertise will bring a valuable dimension to the ZOO team as we continue to build our business. 

'On behalf of the Board and shareholders I would like to thank Matt Taylor for his contribution to the Group over a period when we have refocused and broadened our offering.'

The information required to be disclosed in accordance with Schedule Two paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules is as follows: 

Full Name: James Allen Livingston

Age: 28

Current Shareholding in the Company: Nil

Percentage of issued share capital: Nil

Current Directorships: Trilogy Communications Holdings Ltd, VectorCommand Ltd and 305 Queenstown Road Management Ltd

Past Directorships held in the past five years: None

For further enquiries please contact:

ZOO Digital Group plc Tel: 0114 241 3700

Stuart Green - Chief Executive Officer 

Helen Gilder - Group Finance Director 

FinnCap Tel: 020 7600 1658

Marc Young Charles Cunningham

Weber Shandwick Financial Tel: 020 7067 0700

Terry Garrett

Nick DibdenJohn Moriarty

Katie Matthews

Notes to Editors

About ZOO Digital Group plc

ZOO Digital Group plc is a provider of creative media transformation services and software. ZOO works with printed materials, audio and visual content, and can adapt these media to different languages, sizes, and technical formats. ZOO makes this process extremely quick and cost effective and is clearly differentiated in the market.

ZOO's services are built on its proprietary patented software and enable customers to reduce considerably the costs and time to market of regionalized home entertainment titles and marketing campaigns across multiple territories and across a wide range of applications and formats, including printed materials, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Video on Demand, interactive games and broadcast. Working closely with language translation partners, ZOO's media adaptation software suite transforms computer-based workflows through radical process re-engineering and provides clear differentiation for the company's production, consulting and custom development services.

ZOO is focused on the worldwide creative media production markets and in particular video and print production for entertainment, games and education applications, with customers including major Hollywood studios and other producers and publishers of video-based consumer products.