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Skinkers appoints former CEO and Chairman of AOL Europe to the board

Philip Rowley joins the Skinkers team as non-executive director

06 September 2007

Skinkers, the leaders in information broadcast technology over IP networks, today announced that Philip Rowley has joined their board as a non-executive director. Philip Rowley ((54)) was Chairman and CEO of AOL Europe, the interactive services, web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce provider until February 2007. He is a qualified chartered accountant and was Group Finance Director of Kingfisher plc from 1998 to 2001. Prior to that his roles included Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of EMI Music Worldwide, and Chief Operating Officer and CFO at Golden Books Family Entertainment, the largest children's book publisher in the U.S. He was also the co-founder and Managing Director of Tribeca Technologies, a New York-based technology company specialising in ISDN connectivity and sound compression technologies. He is currently a Non Executive Director of ARM Holdings Plc and QXL Ricardo plc., and will shortly join the Board of HMV group PLC.

Skinkers information broadcast technology, enables large global organisations to deliver ShouldKnow information to their core audiences (employees, customers and partners). ShouldKnow information is priority and useful information people need to know, for example breaking news, corporate communications, service outages, share price alerts and podcasts. Clients include the London Stock Exchange, American Airlines, JC Penney, CNN and the BBC. In April 2007, Skinkers announced the launch of Livestation, the first open broadcast platform for the delivery of interactive live TV to computers. Built on advanced peer-to-peer technology acquired from Microsoft Research, Livestation will allow broadcasters to distribute live audio and video to a potential audience of hundreds of millions of broadband connected consumers at a much reduced cost.

"I am delighted to be joining Skinkers at this exciting time," said Philip. "Skinkers has developed two great information broadcast technologies, the Live Notification Platform for enterprise communications and Livestation for live TV on computers. I'm looking forward to working with the Skinkers team as we bring these innovative technologies to the market."

"I am very excited and honoured that Philip is joining Skinkers. He will add his invaluable talents and experience to our team, in particular in the areas of strategy and managing growth." said Matteo Berlucchi, CEO Skinkers. "Skinkers is moving forward at incredible speed and the fact Philip has chosen to join now is testimony not only to our progress, but also to the potential of the company."

About Livestation
Livestation is a division of Skinkers that has built the world’s first interactive broadcast platform delivering high-quality live TV over broadband. Find out more at www.livestation.com

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