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Directorate Change

31st Mar 2017 15:29

RNS Number : 2335B
Naspers Limited
31 March 2017
 

NASPERS LIMITED

(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)

(Registration number 1925/001431/06)

Share code: NPN & ISIN: ZAE000015889

LSE ADS code: NPSN & ISIN: US6315121003

("Naspers" or the "Group")

 

APPOINTMENT OF INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

 

Ms Emilie Choi will be appointed as an independent non-executive director of Naspers with effect from 21 April 2017.

 

Ms Choi (38) has experience in the fields of consumer internet, media, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and mergers and acquisitions. She has been at LinkedIn since 2009 and is the company's Vice President and Head of Corporate Development. Prior to that, she worked at Warner Bros. Entertainment, first in Corporate Business Development and Strategy, and then in Digital Business Strategy and Operations for Warner Bros. Television. Ms Choi also served as a senior analyst at Yahoo, Inc. Corporate Development, and began her career as an investment banking analyst at Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc.

 

Ms Choi holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University.

 

 

CAPE TOWN

31 March 2017

Sponsor: Investec Bank Limited

 

For more information please contact:

Meloy Horn, Head of Investor Relations

[email protected], +27 11 289 3320

 

About Naspers

Founded in 1915, Naspers is a global internet and entertainment group and one of the largest technology investors in the world. Operating in more than 130 countries and markets with long-term growth potential, Naspers builds leading companies that empower people and enrich communities. It runs some of the world's leading platforms in internet, video entertainment, and media.

 

Naspers companies connect people to each other and the wider world, help people improve their daily lives, and entertain audiences with the best of local and global content. Every day, millions of people use the products and services of companies that Naspers has invested in, acquired or built, including Avito, Brainly, Codecademy, eMAG, Flipkart, ibibo, letgo, Media24, Movile, MultiChoice, OLX, PayU, ShowMax, SimilarWeb, Twiggle, and Udemy. Similarly, hundreds of millions of people have made the platforms of its associates Tencent (www.tencent.com; SEHK 00700) and Mail.ru (www.corp.mail.ru; LSE: MAIL) a part of their daily lives.

 

Naspers is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (NPN.SJ) and has an ADR listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: NPSN).

 

For more information, please visit www.naspers.com. 

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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