Yoomedia PLC
25 March 2004
25 March 2004
YooMedia appoints Finance Director
YooMedia, the interactive television and wireless entertainment group, is
pleased to announce the appointment of Jonathan Apps as Finance Director.
Jonathan, 39, will join the board on 31 March.
He was recently chief financial officer of Music Choice Europe plc, the quoted
supplier of music programming to the digital television industry. Before that he
was CFO of e-capital investments plc, the AIM-listed technology venture capital
fund. Jonathan qualified as an accountant with Coopers &Lybrand, where he
practised for 11 years in London and Sydney. Since leaving Music Choice last
March, he has been an independent consultant to a number of early stage
technology companies.
Michael Sinclair, Executive Chairman of YooMedia, said: 'It is a sign of our
growing maturity as a company that we can attract a finance director of
Jonathan's calibre and track record. His experience in the technology and
digital media arenas will be of great benefit and he is an excellent addition to
the senior management team as YooMedia continues to drive forward.'
Jonathan Apps said: 'I have been deeply impressed by the progress being made at
YooMedia and, perhaps most importantly, by the quality of its products and its
people. I relish the opportunity of contributing to its growth and success.'
Jonathan Apps is/has been a director of the following companies:
CURRENT DIRECTORSHIP:
Structural Monitoring Systems plc
LIST OF PREVIOUS DIRECTORSHIPS:
Music Choice Europe plc
Music Choice ltd
e-capital investments plc ( now known as Avanti Capital Partners )
Pragmatrix Limited
the sitegeist.com
VEO ltd
Technology Holdings ltd
No further disclosures are required in relation to Jonathan Apps under Schedule
2 paragraph (f) of the AIM rules.
About YooMedia
YooMedia plc is a digital TV and wireless entertainment company that provides
services including chat, games and dating products. YooMedia has:
• recently acquired GoPlay TV Ltd. an interactive-games channel
currently operated by Sony Pictures Digital Inc. GoPlay owns and
operates an interactive games channel available on the first page of the
interactive main menu on Sky Digital.
• signed an exclusive three-year partnership agreement with
Sportingbet Group, one of the world's leading online gambling business, which
will initially see YooMedia launching Sportingbet's popular games products on
all digital platforms in the UK in 2004.
• the exclusive license for Tetris across UK digital cable
and Freeview.
• signed an exclusive partnership with Dateline to develop and
launch all of its interactive dating services on digital television.
• invested in and launched the first ever games channel on Freeview
called Free2Play and has secured the right to run pay to play games on the
platform.
• an agreement with ntl: Home to distribute all its products on its
digital interactive cable platform.
• pioneered (and successfully trialled in partnership with Turner
Broadcasting) the use of mobile phones to interact in real time with a TV
programme. The Trigger TV technology is exclusive to YooMedia and protected by a
worldwide patent.
• been selected by the government as the only dedicated interactive
TV company for the E-voting Framework.
YooMedia plc is quoted on the Alternative Investment Market.
www.yoomedia.com
For further information, please contact:
John Murray
Powerscourt - Financial PR 020 7236 5615
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