Myriad Group announces a change in the board of directors

Myriad Group announces a change in the board of directors

ZURICH, Switzerland - 15th May 2014 - Myriad Group AG (SIX Swiss Exchange: MYRN) the company creating and connecting communities across mobile and TV, today announced Richard Schlauri will not be standing for re-election at the Annual General meeting of Shareholders on the 26th May 2014. In his place, Myriad will propose David Nuescheler as a new Board member for election at the Annual General meeting of Shareholders on the 26th May 2014.

Erik Hansen, Chairman of the Board of Directors commented: "On behalf of the entire board I would like to thank Richard for his hard work, contribution and enthusiasm over the past two years. With David's nomination of election to the Myriad Board of Directors we have an excellent opportunity to tap into the experience of a well established technology leader."

About David Nuescheler

As VP for Enterprise Technology, David Nuescheler leads product innovation and strategy for Adobe's Enterprise products and brings his vast expertise in Web Experience Management to bear for Adobe's comprehensive enterprise solution set. Nuescheler drives the Adobe enterprise technology vision and architecture and is responsible for the platform's user experience and technology incubation.

Nuescheler joined Adobe through its acquisition of Day Software. He co-founded Day in 1994 and was instrumental in growing the company from a small multimedia agency to a leading enterprise content management software company.

He created the basic concept for the original Communiqué, now Adobe CQ5, and has guided product development to create a truly advanced content management and infrastructure platform. Nuescheler has led various international technical standardization initiatives and is a member of the Apache Software Foundation.

Nuescheler has been awarded for his work in standards and open source on various occasions including being nominated twice for the JCP Spec-Lead of the Year Award, Two Star-Spec Lead Awards and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the "Best of Swiss Web" Association.

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About Myriad

Myriad delivers consumer applications, messaging solutions, and embedded software to leading OEMs, mobile operators, and pay TV providers worldwide.

Our messaging services deliver instant messaging and social networking to tens of millions of users in Latin America, Asia and Africa. Working with some of the world's most successful mobile phone operators, Myriad's market leading chat application, MSNGR, enables consumers to connect to friends and family for free across feature phones as well as smartphones. Our Myriad Updates service, provided over USSD through our collaboration with Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo News enables users without data plans to connect to the social networks, chat and news services they want to reach in a simple and affordable way. In many cases, Myriad's services are providing users with their first experience of the Internet.

Our market proven and innovative connected home solutions are found in billions of mobile phones and tens of millions of set-top boxes and Blu-ray players.

We operate worldwide, with offices in Switzerland, UK, France, USA, Mexico, India, UAE, China, Japan. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, Myriad is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX Symbol: MYRN).

For more information please visit our website: www.myriadgroup.com. You can also follow us on twitter @MyriadGroup

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