Myriad Group AG (SIX Swiss Exchange: MYRN), a global leader in mobile technology having shipped over 3.5 billion software applications on more than 2 billion phones, announced today that Loek van den Boog was appointed as new Chairman of Myriad Group AG by the Board of Directors at the Board meeting held on 28 September 2010.
Loek van den Boog was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of Myriad Group AG in March 2009 and has also been acting as Head of the Audit Committee and a member of the Compensation and Nominating Committee. The appointment of Loek van den Boog as Chairman of Myriad Group AG follows the sudden passing away of Myriad’s previous Chairman Rolf P. Jetzer. Hans-Ulrich Müller continues to act as Vice-Chairman of the company.
Information on Loek van den Boog
Born 1953, Dutch citizen
Loek van den Boog is an independent consultant and private investor since 1996, and has held various supervisory board and line management positions. He has over 25 years of experience in the software sector. During 2008, he served as Executive Director and interim CEO at Patni Computer Systems Ltd., headquartered in Mumbai, India. From 1996 to 2004, Mr. van den Boog worked for General Atlantic Partners as Special Advisor and from 2006 to 2007 he was CEO of Cordys B.V., a leading provider of Service Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management technology. Former positions: From 2001 through 2002 he was CEO of Meta4, from 1984 to 1996 he worked at Oracle Corporation (Head of EMEA) and before then he worked at Deloitte Haskins & Sells as an auditor and management consultant. Mr. van den Boog was CFO and CIO at the Dutch copyright association Buma/Stemra.
Mr. van den Boog holds a university degree in Business Economics and in Public Accounting.
Other activities:
Loek van den Boog is Chief Strategist of Vallstein Beheer B.V., Chairman of Human Inference, Netherlands, member of the Board of Directors of Patni Computer Systems Ltd., India and serves as Chairman of Net4kids Aid Foundation.