REG - Blackbird PLC - Notice of AGM and Board Change

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RNS Number : 9521P  Blackbird PLC  28 May 2024

28 May 2024

 

Blackbird plc

(the "Company")

 

Notice of annual general meeting and posting of annual report and accounts

Board change

 

Notice of annual general meeting

Blackbird plc (AIM:BIRD), the technology licensor, developer and seller of
market-leading cloud native video editing platform, Blackbird, and developer
of the multiplayer editor in a browser, elevate.io, announces that that the
Company's 2024 Annual General Meeting (the "AGM") will be held at 10.30 a.m.
on 18 June 2024 at the offices of Blake Morgan, 6 New Street Square, London,
EC4A 3DJ.

A circular containing the notice of the AGM has been posted to those
shareholders who have elected to receive hard copy communications and is
available on the Company's website at www.blackbird.video/investor-relations
(http://www.blackbird.video/investor-relations) .

The AGM will be run as an open meeting and shareholders are welcome to attend
the meeting in person.

However, in order to ensure that shareholders are able to follow the
proceedings of the AGM without attending in person, the Company will provide
access online via the Investor Meet Company platform. However, please note
that shareholders will not be able to vote online at the AGM via the Investor
Company Meet platform and are therefore requested to submit their votes via
proxy, as early as possible. Shareholders are invited to submit any questions
for the Board to consider. Questions can be pre submitted ahead of the AGM via
the Investor Meet Company platform before 9.00 am the day before the AGM or
submitted at any time during the AGM itself by shareholders. Questions will
also be able to be asked at the AGM by those attending the AGM in person.

Shareholders that wish to attend the AGM remotely should register for the
event in advance by using the following link:
https://www.investormeetcompany.com/blackbird-plc/register-investor
(https://www.investormeetcompany.com/blackbird-plc/register-investor) .

Shareholders will not receive a form of proxy for the AGM in the post.
Instead, they may submit proxy votes electronically through the website of the
Company's registrars, Link Group, at
https://investorcentre.linkgroup.co.uk/Login/Login
(https://investorcentre.linkgroup.co.uk/Login/Login) or via the Link Investor
Centre app, as set out in the notes to the notice of the AGM.  Alternatively,
a hard copy proxy form may be requested directly from the Company's
registrars, Link Group, Central Square, 29 Wellington Street, Leeds LS1 4DL
(email: shareholderenquiries@linkgroup.co.uk
(mailto:shareholderenquiries@linkgroup.co.uk) , telephone number: 0371 664
0300).

Posting of annual report and accounts

The Company's report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2023, a copy
of which can be viewed at https://www.blackbird.video/investor-relations/
(https://www.blackbird.video/investor-relations/) , have also been sent to
those shareholders who have elected to receive hard copy communications.

Board change

Andrew Bentley, non-executive Chairman of the Company, has informed the
Company that he will stepping down as Chairman at the end of the AGM to pursue
other business interests. He will remain a Non-Executive Director until 31
August 2024 to ensure a smooth transition as the Company actively recruits a
further Non-Executive Director.

Anne de Kerckhove, the Company's senior Independent non-executive Director,
will take over the role of Chair of the Board after the formal part of the
AGM.

Contacts:

 

Blackbird plc
 
                                Tel: +44 (0)20
8879 7245

Ian McDonough, Chief Executive Officer

Stephen White, Chief Operating and Financial Officer

 

Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser and
Broker)                             Tel: +44 (0)20
3328 5656

Nick Naylor / Piers Shimwell (Corporate Finance)

Amrit Nahal / Guy McDougall (Equity Sales and Corporate Broking)

 

About Blackbird plc

 

Blackbird plc operates in the fast-growing SaaS, Media and Entertainment and
content creation markets.  Blackbird plc's patented technology allows for
frame accurate navigation, playback, viewing and editing in the cloud and it
has two products.

 

Blackbird(Ⓡ) a market leading suite of cloud-native computing applications,
is used by rights holders, broadcasters, sports and news video specialists,
live events and content owners, post production houses, other mass market
digital video channels and corporations.

 

elevate.io, currently in general release, is the company's new multi-player
content creation tool in a web browser aimed at professional teams and the
Creator Economy.

 

Blackbird plc also licences its core video technology under its 'Powered by
Blackbird' licensing model. Enabling video companies to accelerate their path
to true cloud business models, licensees benefit from power and carbon
reductions, cost and time savings, less hardware and bandwidth requirements
and easy scalability.

 

www.blackbird.video (http://www.blackbird.video/)
www.linkedin.com/company/blackbird-cloud
(http://www.linkedin.com/company/blackbird-cloud)
www.twitter.com/blackbirdcloud (http://www.twitter.com/blackbirdcloud)
www.facebook.com/blackbirdplc (http://www.facebook.com/blackbirdplc)
www.youtube.com/c/blackbirdcloud (http://www.youtube.com/c/blackbirdcloud)

www.elevate.io

 

 

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