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About

Activision Blizzard brings together Activision, one of the very top independent video games producers, and Vivendi Games, Vivendi’s video games. Activision Blizzard is the world leader in videogames. Activision Blizzard will continue to operate as a public company traded on Nasdaq under the ticker ATVI.

Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision Blizzard, Inc. is a worldwide online and console game publisher with leading market positions across every major category of the rapidly growing video games software industry. Activision Blizzard maintains operations in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Romania, Australia, Chile, India, Japan, China, the region of Taiwan and South Korea.

Portfolio of Video Games and Franchises

In 2008, Activision launched Guitar Hero: World Tour, Call of Duty: World at War, and titles under license such as Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (among the Top 10 franchises of films for children, with its other game Shrek), Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (number one worldwide for superhero franchises), James Bond: Quantum of Solace, and many others. Activision has also developed Tony Hawk, X-Men, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein from id Software, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2: Fusion from Vicarious Visions, Prototype from Radical and Singularity from Raven Software.

Blizzard Entertainment® is a world-class development studio and publisher best known as the creator of the Warcraft® and StarCraft® real-time strategy game series, the Diablo® action role-playing game series, and the World of Warcraft® Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG).

With the success of World of Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment is the world leader in terms of subscriber base and revenues generated in the subscription-based MMORPG market.

In 2007, Blizzard launched the first extension to World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, followed on November 13, 2008, by Wrath of the Lich King, released simultaneously in several countries. The game broke all records for sales, with more than 2.8 million copies sold in 24 hours.

Management

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors of Activision Blizzard consists of eleven members: six directors designated by Vivendi, two Activision management directors and three independent directors from Activision’s board of directors. Jean-Bernard Lévy, a member of the Management Board of Vivendi and Chairman of Activision Blizzard. Brian Kelly, Co-Chairman of Activision Blizzard. The three independent directors are Richard Sarnoff, Robert J. Corti and Robert Morgado. Other Activision Blizzard directors will be Robert Kotick (Director and Chief Executive Officer of Activision Blizzard), Bruce Hack (Vice-Chairman and Chief Corporate Officer of Activision Blizzard), Jean-Bernard Lévy (Chairman of the Management Board and Chief Executive Officer of Vivendi), Doug Morris (Member of the Management Board of Vivendi and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Universal Music Group), Philippe Capron (Member of the Management Board and Chief Financial Officer of Vivendi), and Frédéric Crépin (Senior Vice President, Head of Legal Department of Vivendi).

Executive Management

Jean-Bernard Lévy
Chairman of Activision Blizzard

Brian Kelly
Co-Chairman and Director of Activision Blizzard

Robert Kotick
Director and Chief Executive Officer of Activision Blizzard

Mike Griffith
President and Chief Executive Officer of Activision Publishing (Sierra Entertainment, Sierra Online and Vivendi Games Mobile divisions in addition to the Activision business)

Bruce Hack
Vice-Chairman and Chief Corporate Officer of Activision Blizzard, accountable for leading the merger integration and the finance, human resources and legal functions

Mike Morhaime
President and Chief Executive Officer of Blizzard Entertainment

Thomas Tippl
Chief Financial Officer of Activision Blizzard

Jean-François Grollemund
Chief Merger Officer of Activision Blizzard