FLEXIROAM APPOINTS MARC BARNETT AS NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Flexiroam Limited (ASX: FRX) (Flexiroam or the Company) is pleased to announce that Marc Barnett has today been appointed a Non-Executive Director of the Company.
As an executive, Marc has extensive experience in sales, commercial operations, finance and change management, and brings over 12 years’ experience in C-suite roles across the Asia-Pacific region, with multinational corporations and high growth start-ups.
Marc was most recently Chief Executive Officer of video-on-demand service iflix, until its acquisition by Tencent in June 2020, having joined as Chief Operating Officer in 2016. Marc accelerated iflix’s growth to deliver 50 million app downloads with 25 million monthly active users, rapidly expanding the business to 32 markets spanning Asia, Middle East and Africa.
Prior to iflix, Marc held senior leadership roles at Microsoft and NineMSN. As part of the Microsoft Asia-Pacific Executive Leadership Team, he developed the go-to-market strategy for over 100 sales staff across 13 markets in the region. He represented the interests of Nine Entertainment Co and Microsoft in Joint Ventures, and was the 2014 AFR Boss Magazine, Young Executive of the Year.
Commenting on Marc’s appointment to the Board, Flexiroam Managing Director Jef Ong said: “I am delighted to welcome Marc to Flexiroam’s Board and look forward to his contribution as we rapidly scale our business globally."
“Marc has a proven track record scaling businesses and growing them globally, having signed commercial agreements with over 40 Telco partners to bundle content to users and represented regional joint ventures with two Telco partners at iflix. Having successfully expanded iflix’s employees to 750 globally, he has developed a global talent network in the telco sector that will be important for Flexiroam as it forms further partnerships to scale growth.”
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