Tinkerine Annual General Meeting Results and Appointments to Board of Directors
24 Junio 2016 - 6:01AM
Tinkerine Studios Ltd. (“Tinkerine” or the
“Company”) (TSXV:TTD) (FSE:WB6B) (OTC:TKSTF) is pleased to
announce results from the Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) held on
June 23, 2016 in Vancouver, British Columbia. In addition to the
existing directors, the Company has added Mr. Bob Longo and Mr.
Justin Sy to the Board of Directors.
New Additions to the Board of
Directors
Mr. Bob Longo
Mr. Longo is current Chief Executive Officer
(“CEO”) and President of Knowmatters, Inc., a US-based education
firm focused on cognitive learning and artificial intelligence. Mr.
Longo has specific expertise in CEO strategic and operational
support, sales, marketing, executive general management and
strategic planning.
Mr. Longo previously held senior positions with
Apple Inc., Carnegie Learning, Studywiz, SchoolOne and NeXT Inc.
During his tenure at Apple and NeXT his duties included
responsibilities in both the K-12 and Higher Education markets. Mr.
Longo worked with Steve Jobs three times. He headed up the
K-12 market and later was President
of Apple’s PowerSchool Division, leading it to
three consecutive years of increased growth in revenue,
profit and market share. This included recognition as the Software
Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) CODIE winner each
year, for Best Software in its category. Mr. Longo was
President, CEO and Vice Chairman at Carnegie Learning, a leading
adaptive math software developer and publisher.
He successfully launched the Carnegie Mellon’s spin-out
penetrating 40% of the largest 100 US School
Districts in its first 36 months, while
tripling revenue each year. At Carnegie
Learning he was recognized as an Ernst &
Young Software Entrepreneur of the Year and was twice
invited to present to the US governors at their Education
Technology Summit. At both PowerSchool and Carnegie Learning
his teams secured 99% Customer Retention Rates. Mr. Longo was
Executive Vice President at Studywiz, and was responsible for the
expansion of sales to K-12 schools in North America and for
developing strategic relationships with major industry
partners including Apple, Google and Microsoft. Mr. Longo was CEO
of SchoolOne, an education technology company that
developed and marketed web-based, enterprise,
information software solutions to the K-12
market, their clients included all of the Catholic
Schools in the Silicon Valley.
Mr. Justin Sy, Interim Chief Financial
Officer (“CFO”)
Mr. Sy is one of the founders of Tinkerine and has
been directly involved in the development of software for the Ditto
Pro 3-D printer. Mr. Sy has participated in a number of 3D printing
related competitions and is the founder of Puppeteer, a 3D imaging
software used to control hand motions via a connected glove. Mr. Sy
received a runner-up award for this project in the BCNET Digital
Media Challenge. Mr. Sy also holds a B.Sc from Simon Fraser
University. Mr. Sy was appointed interim CFO on February 24,
2016.
All Resolutions were passed at the AGM. Results
from the AGM include the following items:
Resolution |
For (%) |
Set
number of directors to five (5) |
100 |
Election of Directors |
|
Mr.
Eugene Suhu |
100 |
Mr. Todd
Blatt |
100 |
Mr.
Desmond Liew |
89.83 |
Mr. Bob
Longo |
100 |
Mr.
Justin Sy |
100 |
Appointment of Auditors |
100 |
Adoption
of Fixed Share Option Plan |
97.38 |
Approval
of Existing Rolling Option Plan |
87.39 |
Re-Pricing of Options |
84.73 |
|
|
The Company has also granted 1,195,000 stock
options at an exercise price of $0.075 to certain directors,
officers, consultants and employees subject to TSX Venture Exchange
Approval. These stock options have an expiry date of June 23,
2021.
The appointments to the Board of Directors are
subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval.
ABOUT TINKERINE STUDIOS LTD.
Tinkerine Studios designs and manufactures
user-friendly award winning 3D printers and software, with a focus
on STEAM based educational content and online training tools.
Tinkerine also manufactures its own line of high purity filament
for 3D printers.
Tinkerine and Ditto are registered trademarks of
Tinkerine Studios Ltd., all rights reserved.
Additional information on the Company can be found
on the Tinkerine website at www.tinkerine.com or at www.sedar.com.
All sales figures are in Canadian dollars.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its
Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the
policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for
the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
For further information please contact:
Dean Stuart, Investor Relations
T: 403 617 7609
E: dean@boardmarker.net
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