Ahead of Viaplay Group’s Annual General Meeting on May 13th, the Viaplay Group Nomination Committee has proposed the re-election of Andrea Gisle Joosen, Erik Forsberg, Katarina Bonde, Maxime Saada, Jacques du Puy, Anna Bäck, Didier Stoessel, and Annica Witschard as members of the Board of Directors, and the re-election of Simon Duffy as Chair of the Board of Directors.
- Andrea Gisle Joosen is a member of the Board of Directors of evoke Holdings, Stadium, Logent and Zühlke Group. She is currently Chair of the Nomination Committee of Swedish Commerce. She has previously held positions such as CEO of the Swedish operations of Boxer TV and Managing Director of the Nordic operations of Panasonic, Chantelle, and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, as well as positions with Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, and Mars.
- Erik Forsberg is Chair of the Board of Directors of Collectia Group. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Stillfront Group, Enento Group (publ), and Deltalite. Forsberg was previously Chair of the Board of Directors of LecToGo as well as CFO of Intrum and Cision.
- Katarina Bonde is Chair of the Board of Directors of Stillfront Group, Mentimeter, and Zimpler. Katarina is also a member of the Board of Directors of Mycronic. She has previously held board positions at public and private companies such as Opus Group AB, ACQ Bure, AP6 (Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund), and Stratsys. Bonde was previously CEO of UniSite Software, Managing Director of Captura International, EVP, Sales, and Marketing at Captura Software (acquired by SAP), and Sales Director at Dun & Bradstreet.
- Maxime Saada is Chairman of the Management Board of Canal+ Group, StudioCanal L’Olympia and Dailymotion. He is currently CEO of CAanal+ Group.
- Jacques du Puy is Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ International. He is also a member of the Management Board, in charge of Global Pay-TV for the Group. Du Puy was appointed as member of the Management Board of Groupe Canal+ SA in 2016, having been with the Group for 12 years. He joined Canal+ in November 2012. he was previously COO of Vetoquinol, CEO Europe, Africa and Middle East of Bayer CropScience, CEO Japan and Korea of Aventis CropScience and CEO India and Japan at Rhône-Poulenc Agro.
- Anna Bäck is Chair of the Board of Directors of Precis Digital and Tradera. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Nordnet Bank, Permobil, the Swedish Biathlon Association, and Systembolaget. She was previously CEO of Kivra and Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company.
- Didier Stoessel holds various private company board positions within the PPF Group portfolio. He is currently Chief Investment Officer of PPF Group and CEO of Central European Media Enterprises. Stoessel was previously CEO of Nova Broadcasting Group and Apace Media, Global CEO of Corporate Finance at HSBC Investment Bank and Director of Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch International.
- Annica Witschard is a member of the Board of Directors of Sampo Group. She was previously CEO of Home Credit Vietnam, Home Credit Group Philippines and GE Money Bank Nordics. Home Credit Group is PPF Group’s consumer finance division.
- Simon Duffy is a non-Executive Chair of Modern Times Group MTG and YouView TV and non‑executive director of Avianca Group International Limited. Duffy was previously Executive Chair of the Board of Directors of Tradus , Executive Vice-Chair of ntl: Telewest, CEO of ntl, CFO of Orange, CEO of End2End, CEO and Deputy Chair of WorldOnline International and has held senior positions at EMI Group and Guinness.
The Nomination Committee comprises Audrey Richard, appointed by Groupe Canal+; Brendan Donahue, appointed by PPF Cyprus Management Limited; Filippa Gerstädt, appointed by Nordea Fonder; and Duffy. The members of the Nomination Committee appointed Audrey Richard as Nomination Committee Chair at their first meeting.
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