Directorate Change

RNS Number : 3206W

Zoo Digital Group PLC

28 July 2009

 



28 July 2009

ZOO DIGITAL GROUP PLC

('ZOO' or 'the Group')

BOARD APPOINTMENT

ZOO Digital Group plc, the creative media production and technology company, is pleased to announce that it has appointed Gordon Doran to the Board as the Group's Commercial Director with immediate effect.  

Gordon, 42, is currently President of the Group's North American division, having joined ZOO in 2005 to establish its US operations.  Prior to joining ZOO, he was Chief Operating Officer of Mediostream Inc. - a consumer DVD software developer.  Gordon has held senior positions in sales and marketing for a variety of companies in the software industry since the early 1990s, both in the UK and US.  

Stuart Green, Chief Executive of ZOO Digital, commented, 'Gordon has proven himself to be pivotal in establishing relationships with a number of large US entertainment companies. Given the proportion of sales from the US, we believe it is important to have board representation in this region and we are delighted to welcome him to the Board.'

Additional Information - there are no items requiring disclosure under paragraph g (iii)-(viii) of Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules.

For further enquiries please contact:

ZOO Digital Group plc	0114 241 3700
Stuart Green - Chief Executive Officer
Helen Gilder - Group Finance Director
FinnCap	020 7600 1658
Marc Young/ Charles Cunningham
Threadneedle Communications	020 7653 9850
Graham Herring/Josh Royston

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.

 

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