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ACTIVISION BLIZZARD

About Management

Activision Blizzard was formed by combining Activision, one of the world’s leading independent publishers of interactive entertainment, and Vivendi Games, Vivendi's interactive entertainment business, which includes Blizzard Entertainment’s® World of Warcraft®, the world’s #1 subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Activision Blizzard will continue to operate as a public company traded on Nasdaq under the ticker ATVI.

 

Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision Blizzard, Inc. is a worldwide pure-play online and console game publisher with leading market positions across all categories of the rapidly growing interactive entertainment software industry.

 

Activision Blizzard maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Romania, Australia, Chile, India, Japan, China, the region of Taiwan and South Korea

 

 

Portfolio of Video Games and Franchises

 

In addition to World of Warcraft®, the #1 subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game, the transaction brings together some of the world’s leading interactive entertainment franchises including Guitar Hero® , the #1 family entertainment and #1 music-based franchise; Call of Duty® , the #1 first-person action franchise; Tony Hawk , the #1 action sports franchise; Spider-Man™, the #1 Super Hero franchise; Cabela’s®, the #1 sports hunting franchise; and two of the top-ten kids movie-based franchises, Shrek®  and Madagascar™, for calendar year 2005 through 2007 according to the NPD Group, Chart Track and The GFK Group.

 

Activision Blizzard’s portfolio includes best-selling video games such as Guitar Hero®, Call of Duty® , and Tony Hawk , as well as Spider-Man™, X-Men™, Shrek®, James Bond™ and TRANSFORMERS™,   leading franchises such as Crash Bandicoot and Spyro™ and Blizzard Entertainment’s® StarCraft®, Diablo®, and Warcraft® franchises including the global #1 subscription-based massively multi-player online role-playing game,  World of Warcraft® .



 

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Board of Directors



The Board of Directors of Activision Blizzard consists of eleven members: six directors designated by Vivendi, two Activision management directors and three independent directors from Activision’s board of directors. René Pénisson, a member of the Management Board of Vivendi and Chairman of Activision Blizzard. Brian Kelly, Co-Chairman of Activision Blizzard. The three independent directors are Richard Sarnoff, Robert J. Corti and Robert Morgado. Other Activision Blizzard directors will be Robert Kotick (President and Chief Executive Officer of Activision Blizzard), Bruce Hack (Vice-Chairman and Chief Corporate Officer of Activision Blizzard), Jean-Bernard Lévy (Chairman of the Management Board and Chief Executive Officer of Vivendi), Doug Morris (Member of the Management Board of Vivendi and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Universal Music Group), Philippe Capron (Member of the Management Board and Chief Financial Officer of Vivendi), and Frédéric Crépin (Senior Vice President, Head of Legal Department of Vivendi).


 

Executive Management

 

 

René Pénisson
Chairman of Activision Blizzard

 

Robert Kotick
President and Chief Executive Officer of Activision Blizzard

 

Mike Griffith
President and Chief Executive Officer of Activision Publishing (Sierra Entertainment, Sierra Online and Vivendi Games Mobile divisions in addition to the Activision business)


Bruce Hack
Vice-Chairman and Chief Corporate Officer of Activision Blizzard, accountable for leading the merger integration and the finance, human resources and legal functions

Mike Morhaime
President and Chief Executive Officer of Blizzard Entertainment

 

Thomas Tippl
Chief Financial Officer of Activision Blizzard

 

Jean-François Grollemund
Chief Merger Officer of Activision Blizzard


 

 

 

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