Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Board Changes and New Partnership Agreements
New Directors
Maarten Gerard Bisseling, 43, has been Chief Executive Officer of Artilium since November 2009. Maarten’s expertise are in the deployment of sophisticated mobile telecoms software systems. He began his career in the telecoms industry in 2000 as a project manager at KPN where he led ARTA deployment for KPN Mobile. He has held a number of consultancy and project manager roles in the IT and telecoms industries, at Belgacom, Energis, Tiscali, Romtelecom and Telemar. Maarten is interested in approximately 0.41% of the issued share capital of Artilium and he is currently a director of Artilium Limited, Artilium NV and Bisseling International SARL. He has no previous directorships.
Petrus Cornelius Antonius de Jong ("Peter"), 64, has been appointed as an executive director of the Company. Peter has worked in several international managerial and consultancy roles in the technology and software industry since 1963 when he began his career at Philips in Eindhoven. Peter is currently a director of his own consultancy business, PBR2 BV, an external management consultant and mediator for global IT leaders. Peter has no other directorships either currently or in the past five years and has no beneficial interest in the Company.
Jan-Paul Willem Menke, 35, has been appointed as a non-executive director of the Company. Jan-Paul began his career at ABN Amro NV, where he was an equity research analyst and later an equity sales specialist on the Dutch institutional equity sales desk. In 2004, he left ABN Amro to help set up Hoving and Partners SA, an independent asset management firm, where he is Chief Investment Officer and a partner. Mr Menke has no other current or previous directorships. He is currently interested in approximately 1.03% of the issued share capital of Artilium.
Messrs Bisseling, de Jong and Menke have confirmed that there is no further information required to be disclosed in relation to Rule 17 and Schedule 2 (g) of the AIM Rules for Companies.
New Partnerships
Artilium has appointed Gartner Inc. ("Gartner") to support its progressive growth strategy in Europe. Gartner will support Artilium by providing sales and marketing strategy advisory services, which will enable the Company to gain greater industry recognition of its product development programme.
Artilium has also appointed FTI Consulting Inc.’s ("FTI") Strategic Communications segment to deliver a comprehensive corporate communications programme in the UK and other European priority countries. Artilium is at a point in its evolution where deeper and more extensive contact with core media is required. The Board of Artilium believes that the partnership with FTI in this engagement programme will enable it to work more closely with key stakeholders in Europe.
In addition, Swisscom AG is in the early stage of examining the added value of Artilium’s portfolio for the benefit of Swisscom’s large business customers.
Adrie Reinders, Chairman of Artilium commented:
“I am very pleased to announce these appointments. Maarten has been with us for a number of years now and has contributed significantly to the development of the Company. His promotion to the Board recognises this contribution and I look forward to working closely with him in the ongoing growth of Artilium.
“Peter is a very experienced business development and strategic alliances executive driving global results and Jan-Paul has a strong background as an investment professional. I am excited by the potential that they bring to Artilium. With their focus and expertise, I am confident that the Company’s ongoing development and growth will continue. I would like to thank Lex and Tom for their contribution to the Company. Their efforts have been crucial to the strong results we have announced today and the fact that the company is now moving into a new phase. I wish them well for the future.”
For further information contact:
Artilium PLC:
+32 (0)50230300
Adrie Reinders
Maarten Bisseling
Arbuthnot Securities:
+44 20 7012 2000
Antonio Bossi
Ed Groome