VANCOUVER, BC, Dec. 16, 2021 /CNW/ - BBTV Holdings Inc. (TSX:
BBTV) (OTCQX: BBTVF) ("BBTV" or the "Company"), a media tech
company that uses technology enabled solutions to help content
creators and influencers become more successful, announces the
appointment of a new Director in addition to numerous executives to
the Company's C-Suite.
New Appointment to BBTV's Board of Directors
The Company is pleased to report that Mr. John Kim has been appointed to the Board of
Directors as an independent director. John is an independent
business consultant, investor, and director of both public and
private companies and has extensive experience in capital markets.
He is passionate about helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses,
especially in the areas of technology and healthcare, and currently
advises several startups in Canada. Previously, John was an award-winning
Portfolio Manager whose career spanned over 20 years, managing
mutual funds, hedge funds, and private client assets across Bay St.
John is a CFA charter holder and graduated from the University of Toronto with a B.Sc. in Applied
Mathematics. BBTV's Board of Directors is now comprised of 6
members, 5 of whom are independent.
Key Management Updates and Appointments:
BBTV's Board of Directors has approved promotions of
Lewis Ball to Chief Strategy
Officer, Doug Johnson to Chief of Ad
Sales and Branded Entertainment, and Blake
Corbet to Chief Corporate Development Officer.
Lewis Ball joined BBTV in 2007 as
its third employee. He became BBTV's Vice President Operations in
2013 and subsequently was appointed Vice President Strategy in
2018. In his role as Chief Strategy Officer, he is responsible for
building and leading BBTV's Interactive division, which publishes
and operates the Company's wide range of Mobile Gaming Apps; as
well as BBTV's Content Management solutions which represent some of
BBTV's largest enterprise clients such as the NBA, Sony Pictures,
and ViacomCBS. Lewis holds a BSc in Management from the
University of Warwick, U.K.
Doug Johnson is responsible for
the oversight of BBTV's Direct Advertising Sales business unit.
Prior to BBTV, Doug ran his own consulting practice for five years
which provided C-suite executives with pragmatic and programmatic
assessments for challenging strategic, operational and IT issues.
Doug has held senior operating roles at Electronic Arts and has
successfully completed executive courses in Management for High
Tech Companies from Stanford
University, and Mergers and Acquisitions from the Wharton
School of Business, University of
Pennsylvania.
Blake Corbet is an accomplished
investment banker with over 25 years experience in London, New
York, Toronto and
Vancouver. He started his banking
career at Haywood Securities in 1990 as an investment banking
analyst. This was followed by Salomon
Brothers in London and
New York, before returning to
Canada in 1996 as an Executive
Director, Investment Banking where he spent eight years with CIBC
World Markets in Toronto. Most
recently, Blake was Managing Director and Co-Head of Investment
Banking at PI Financial where he completed a variety of financing
and advisory transactions across the Technology, Telecom and
Healthcare sectors.
For more information visit www.bbtv.com.
About BBTV
BBTV is a global media and technology
company headquartered in Vancouver,
Canada. The Company's mission is to help content creators
become more successful. With creators ranging from individuals to
global media brands, BBTV provides comprehensive, end-to-end
Solutions to increase viewership and drive revenue powered by its
innovative technology, while allowing creators to focus on their
core competency – content creation. In January 2021, BBTV had the second most unique
monthly viewers among digital platforms with more than 600 million
globally, who consumed more than 50 billion minutes of video
content, the most among media companies [1]. (www.bbtv.com)
[1] Calculations and classifications made by BBTV based on data
from Comscore's "Top 12 Countries = January
2021 comScore Video Metrix Media Trend – Multi-Platform –
Top 100 Video Properties Report"; Top 12 countries represent ~50%
of world's digital population.
For further information please contact:
Media
Relations: pr@bbtv.com
Investor Relations: ir@bbtv.com
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