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- Screen FX PLC
- 21 September 2006
- Press Release 21 September 2006
- ScreenFX plc
- ('ScreenFX' or 'the Company')
- Directorate Changes
- Notice of Results
- ScreenFX plc (AIM: SFX), the digital advertising and communications specialist,
- is pleased to announce the appointment of Simon Elms to the Board of the Company
- as Finance Director, with immediate effect. Richard Schultz, who has been the
- Finance Director since January 2006, will relinquish his position but will
- remain as a Director of the Company and take up a new position of Commercial
- Director.
- Simon Elms is a Chartered Accountant, qualifying in 1994 after training at Price
- Waterhouse Coopers ('PWC'). Whilst at PwC Simon worked in Corporate Tax,
- Advisory and Corporate Finance, specialising in investigation and due diligence
- work. From 1995 to 1997 he worked at Ciba Specialty Chemicals managing the
- centralisation of their accounts function and overseeing the de-merger of that
- business from its pharmaceutical arm, Novartis. Since 1997, Simon has worked
- within the Entertainment and Media Industry. He was a formative director of a
- computer video game developer, Warthog plc, growing the business to a successful
- flotation in February 2001 and ultimately overseeing the acquisition of that
- Company in 2005 by a US-based publisher and hardware manufacturer.
- Simon Paul Elms, aged 36, has been a Director of the following companies and
- organisations during the past five years:
- Current Directorships Directorships held in the past five years
- Elms Financial Consulting Limited Warthog plc
- Virtual Poker Limited Warthog Property Limited
- Warthog Entertainment Limited
- Roadhog Games Limited
- Phatfish Limited
- Sourcery Development Limited
- Zed Two Limited
- There is no other information that requires disclosure under Schedule 2
- paragraph (g) of the AiM Rules.
- David Clark, Chief Executive Officer of ScreenFX, said: 'The Board is
- particularly pleased to welcome Simon as our new Finance Director. Simon brings
- with him valuable experience of the media sector and of public company life from
- his time spent at Warthog where he was instrumental in growing the business,
- listing it and then overseeing its acquisition. We would also like to take the
- opportunity to thank Richard for his short but important tenure as Finance
- Director and we believe that in their new positions, Simon and Richard will play
- key roles in our forward strategy.'
- The Company also announces today that the Interim Results for the six month
- period ending 30 June 2006 will be announced on Friday 29 September 2006. An
- analyst briefing given by David Clark (Chief Executive Officer) and Simon Elms
- (Finance Director) and David Neale (Managing Director), will be held at 9.30 am
- on Friday, 29 September 2006 at Abchurch Communications Ltd, 5th Floor, 100
- Cannon Street, London, EC4N 6EU.
- - Ends -
- For further information:
- ScreenFX plc
- David Clark, Chief Executive Tel: +44 (0) 161 428 5544
- info@screenfx.com www.screenfxplc.com
- Seymour Pierce Limited
- Stuart Lane, Corporate Finance Tel: +44 (0) 20 7107 8000
- stuartlane@seymourpierce.com www.seymourpierce.com
- Media enquiries:
- Abchurch
- Henry Harrison-Topham / Laura Riascos De Castro Tel: +44 (0) 20 7398 7700
- henry.ht@abchurch-group.com www.abchurch-group.com
- Notes to editors:
- ScreenFX has five operating divisions, these are detailed below:
- MallFX - a division established in 2004 that provides digital advertising
- solutions to UK premium shopping malls. Current portfolio includes 25 'super
- malls' which yields a footfall of over 450 million consumers per annum.
- TrainFX - established in 2005, this is a new division designed for transport
- sector media, providing state of the art technology for premium marketing
- opportunities on commuter trains.
- HealthFX - a new division, established in 2006 that targets the health sector,
- both public and private, and addresses the need for more modern methods of
- communication with patients, provides patient information and communication
- systems.
- BigFX - established in 1999, this division provides large format out of home
- poster and banner advertising media space.
- LiveFX - a specialist provider of creative marketing and content services to
- both internal operating divisions and external clients.
- ScreenFX joined AIM in March 2004. Further information can be found at:
- www.screenfxplc.com
- This information is provided by RNS
- The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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