Item 5.02. Departure Of Directors Or Principal Officers; Election Of Directors;
Appointment Of Principal Officers; Compensatory Arrangements Of Certain
Officers.
Effective as of June 8, 2022, the board of directors (the "Board") of Games &
Esports Experience Acquisition Corp. (the "Company") appointed Jocelyn Moore and
Angela Williams as additional independent members of the Board. Ms. Moore has
been appointed as a Class I director, with an initial term expiring at the first
annual general meeting of Company shareholders. Ms. Williams has been appointed
as a Class III director, with an initial term expiring at the third annual
general meeting of Company shareholders. The Board appointed Ms. Moore to serve
on the Audit Committee of the Board and Ms. Williams to serve on the
Compensation Committee of the Board, in each case effective as of June 8, 2022.
Jocelyn Moore, age 46, is currently Senior Managing Director of Corporate
Affairs at Pretium, a position she has held since February 2022. She serves on
the boards of directors of OppFi, a publicly-traded financial technology company
(NYSE: OPFI); and Pallas Advisors, a strategic advisory firm specializing in
national security, defense, and innovation. In October 2021, Ms. Moore was
appointed by the Biden Administration to serve on the board of the First
Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), a unique public-private partnership
created after September 11th to provide a high-speed, nationwide, wireless
broadband network for public safety. As Principal of Jocelyn Moore Consulting
LLC starting in May 2020, Ms. Moore has advised CEOs, executive teams, and
boards of directors on strategic communications, crisis and risk management,
regulatory affairs, corporate social responsibility, operations, organizational
change, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Previously, from June
2018 until April 2020, Ms. Moore was Executive Vice President of Communications
and Public Affairs at the National Football League ("NFL"). As the NFL's Global
Chief Communications Officer, she was a member of the executive leadership team
and responsible for managing the league's corporate affairs. From July 2016 to
June 2018, Ms. Moore was Senior Vice President of Public Policy and Government
Affairs at the NFL. As Head of the NFL's Washington, D.C. office, she led the
league's public policy agenda and managed the league's political action
committee. Prior to joining the NFL, from September 2015 until July 2016, Ms.
Moore served as a Managing Director of The Glover Park Group, a leading national
communications and government affairs consulting firm. She also spent 15 years
in various staff positions in the United States Senate, most recently as the
Deputy Staff Director of the Senate Finance Committee. She serves as a director
on several nonprofit boards: the West Virginia University Health System Board of
Directors, where she is a member of the Quality & Patient Safety Committee; the
University of Florida Foundation National Board of Directors, where she is as a
member of the Audit and Nominating Committees; the University of Florida Alumni
Association Board of Directors, where she is a member of the Executive
Committee; and the DC Rape Crisis Center Board of Directors, where she is a
member of the Fundraising Committee. Ms. Moore holds a B.A. in English and an
M.Ed. in Student Personnel in Higher Education, both from the University of
Florida.
Angela Williams, age 41, is a technology executive with experience across
various industries, disciplines and corporate structures - all working in the
service of company success. Ms. Williams currently serves as the Privacy Product
Strategy Lead for Extended Reality (XR) privacy strategy at Meta's Reality Labs,
a position she has held since November 2021. Ms. Williams has significant
experience serving as a strategic partner, trusted advisor, and industry expert
in user privacy, child safety, and building privacy programs that optimize the
user experience. Previously, from November 2018 to December 2021, Ms. Williams
served as a Policy Advisor at Google working on initiatives such as election
integrity and Google Assistant. As a Policy Advisor, Ms. Williams drove
alignment on policies that sought to improve the customer experience, reduce
abuse in the ads ecosystem, and protect user trust. Ms. Williams regularly
drives alignment around complex and nuanced technology policy issues with
executives. From March 2016 through November 2018, Ms. Williams served as a
Global Vendor Ops Strategy Lead at Google. A lawyer with expertise in
operations, Ms. Williams also has experience driving sustainable scalability and
revenue growth through her proven record of large portfolio management, expert
negotiation of complex commercial deals, vendor outsourcing contracts, and sales
agreements. Prior to her policy work at Google, she worked in operations at
Google where she used her business and legal acumen to develop global vendor
operations strategies, negotiate vendor agreements, and assess vendor
capabilities against business needs. Ms. Williams regularly speaks to
organizations about operational efficiencies, vendor outsourcing best practices,
the intersection of technology policy and diversity, and leadership. Ms.
Williams currently serves as an Advisor on the boards of: Deckstr and Chloe
Kristyn. Ms. Williams is a graduate of Spelman College (BA, Sociology &
Anthropology), University of Tennessee-Knoxville (JD), and Howard University
(MBA) and also completed her international studies at Kanda University (Tokyo,
JA) and Bocconi University (Milan, IT).
There are no arrangements or understandings between Ms. Moore or Ms. Williams
and any other persons pursuant to which each of Ms. Moore and Ms. Williams was
selected as a director of the Company, and there are no transactions between
either of Ms. Moore or Ms. Williams or any of their respective related persons,
on the one hand, and the Company, on the other hand, that would require
disclosure pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K. The Board has
affirmatively determined that Ms. Moore and Ms. Williams meet the applicable
standards for an independent director under both the rules of the Nasdaq Stock
Market and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In connection with this appointment, each of Ms. Moore and Ms. Williams is
expected to enter into an indemnity agreement with the Company on the same terms
as the indemnity agreements entered into by the directors and officers of the
Company at the time of the Company's December 2021 initial public offering.
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