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Frank Gibeau

Chief Executive Officer

Frank Gibeau has served as our Chief Executive Officer since March 2016.  Mr. Gibeau is a mobile, PC, and console gaming industry veteran, with more than 25 years of experience in interactive entertainment. Mr. Gibeau spent more than two decades at Electronic Arts, Inc. (“EA”), where he held a number of influential business and product leadership roles. Most recently he served as the Executive Vice President of EA Mobile from October 2013 to May 2015, where he led strategy, product development and publishing for EA’s fast-growing mobile games business. In that role, Mr. Gibeau managed EA’s portfolio of popular mobile franchises including The Simpsons: Tapped Out, Plants vs. Zombies, Real Racing, Bejeweled, Star Wars, Minions, SimCity, EA SPORTS, and The Sims. He also spearheaded the creation of new mobile intellectual property and platform technology, as well as EA’s Chillingo publishing operation.

Prior to that, Mr. Gibeau was President of EA Labels from 2011 to 2013, where he oversaw IP development, worldwide product management, and marketing for major console and PC properties including Battlefield, FIFA, Madden NFL, Need for Speed, SimCity, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and The Sims. He also spent four years as the President of the EA Games label, where he was responsible for a business turnaround that resulted in increased product quality, on time game delivery, and dramatically reduced costs. Before that, Mr. Gibeau acted as EA’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Americas. While at EA, Mr. Gibeau also served as Executive Producer of the major motion picture “Need For Speed,” which was released in 2014.

Mr. Gibeau is currently a director of Graphiq, a data visualization company, and the Vice Chairman of the Corporate Advisory Board for the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.  He previously served on the board of directors of Cooliris, an internet technology company, from 2009 to 2014.

Mr. Gibeau received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and a Masters of Business Administration from Santa Clara University.

Director since:  2015

Age:  49

Qualifications

Mr. Gibeau was selected to serve on the Board due to his leadership and extensive knowledge and experience with the mobile, PC and console gaming industries.  In addition, as our Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Gibeau has a deep perspective on our operations, and provides key insight and advice in the Board’s consideration and oversight of corporate strategy and management development.