Yellow Pages Limited Announces Additional Nominees for Election as Directors at 2017 Annual Meeting of Shareholders
April 10, 2017 at 05:31 pm EDT
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Yellow Pages Limited announced that two additional nominees have been added to the slate of management's director nominees standing for election at its annual general meeting of shareholders. Following discussions with certain of its significant shareholders and other stakeholders, the board of directors of the Company has decided to increase the size of the Board from 10 directors to 12 directors, and to support the election of Messrs. David A. Eckert and Stephen K. Smith as directors of the Company. David A. Eckert– Over the past 30 years, Mr. Eckert has served as Chief Executive Officer of international companies in a wide range of industries (including, more recently, the Hibu Group), was Vice President and Partner at Bain & Company, and has been a member or chair of numerous public and private boards of directors, including the Hibu Group, X-Rite Inc., Clean Harbors Inc. and Italiaonline S.p.A. Stephen K. Smith– Mr. Smith has 20 years of experience serving as a non-executive director and advisor to companies in digital marketing, enterprise systems, cyber security, multichannel retail and online payments sectors. More recently, he served on the executive management team and as advisor to the Chief Executive Officer of the Hibu Group on digital strategy and IT transformation. Since 1999, Mr. Smith has been a General Partner of Masthead Venture Partners. Prior to that, Mr. Smith was Managing Director and Head of the Technology Research Group at PaineWebber (before its merger with UBS Financial Services Group). Mr. Smith is a current board member of Scanbuy, Sea Bags Holdings Inc., and the Maine Technology Institute and formerly served on boards at Packet Design (acquired by Lone Rock Technology Group), Bitpipe (acquired by TechTarget), Ecount (acquired by Citigroup) and Tizor Systems (acquired by Netezza).
Yellow Pages Limited is a Canada-based digital media and marketing company. The Company offers targeted tools to local businesses, national brands and consumers, allowing them to interact and transact within the digital economy. It offers small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Canada full-serve access to a comprehensive suite of digital and traditional marketing solutions, such as online and mobile priority placement on its digital media properties, content syndication, search engine solutions, Website fulfillment, social media campaign management, digital display advertising, video production, e-commerce solutions as well as print advertising. The Companyâs media properties, primarily desktop, mobile and print, continue to serve as effective marketplaces for Canadian local merchants, brands and consumers. It holds online properties including YP.ca, Canada411 and 411.ca. It also holds the YP, Canada411 and 411 mobile applications and Yellow Pages print directories.
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