Technicolor Renews and Reinforces its Board of Directors

Denis Ranque is named non-executive Chairman of Technicolor

Catherine Guillouard, Lloyd Carney, Bruce Hack and John Roche are named to the Board


Paris - Technicolor (Euronext 18453 ; NYSE : TCH) today announced changes to its governance structure and membership on its Board of Directors.

As announced at the 27 January 2010 general shareholders meeting, the Board of Directors accepted at its meeting today Frederic Rose’s proposal to separate the roles of Chairman of the Board and of Chief Executive Officer. Denis Ranque, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Thalès, becomes non executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Technicolor. Frédéric Rose remains Chief Executive Officer.

The new Directors named to the Board are Catherine Guillouard, Financial Director of Eutelsat, Bruce Hack, former CEO of Vivendi Games and Vice Chairman of the Board of Activision Blizzard and John Roche, Administrator of ADEO. They join Technicolor Board members Frédéric Rose, Loïc Desmouceaux, Didier Lombard and Rémy Sautter, who becomes Lead Independant Director. The new Board members succeed Eric Bourdais de Charbonnière, François de Carbonnel, Pierre Lescure and Paul Murray, who served through the completion of the debt restructuring process.

Marcel Roulet leaves his role as ‘censeur’ to the Board. He is succeeded by Lloyd Carney, CEO of Xsigo Systems, who will be nominated to serve on the Board at the next general shareholders meeting.

The shareholders’ meeting, to be held during the second quarter of 2010, will be asked to ratify the nominations of the new Board members.

The Board of Directors now counts eight members and a censeur. The three Board committees are:
- Audit Committee
- Remuneration, Nominations and Governance Committee
- Technology Committee

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About Technicolor
With more than 95 years of experience in entertainment innovation, Technicolor serves an international base of entertainment, software, and gaming customers. The company is a leading provider of production, postproduction, and distribution services to content creators and distributors. Technicolor is one of the world’s largest film processors; the largest independent manufacturer and distributor of DVDs (including Blu-ray Disc); and a leading global supplier of set-top boxes and gateways. The company also operates an Intellectual Property and Licensing business unit. For more information: www.technicolor.com