Upcoming Changes to Activision Blizzard Board of Directors

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Activision Blizzard is adding two new members to their Board of Directors and two others will be leaving. Lulu Cheng Meservey and Kerry Carr will both be standing for election at the annual shareholder meeting on April 28th, which will also decide whether or not to officially approve Activision Blizzard's $68.7 billion sale to Microsoft.

Meanwhile, Hendrik J. Hartong III and Casey Wasserman have chosen not to stand for re-election and will be leaving the board, marking the end of their 7 year tenure.

Lulu Cheng Meservey is technically already a member of the board, elected to serve on the Workplace Responsibility Committee last week on April 16th, but will stand for public re-election alongside Kelly Carr, who will serve on the Audit Committee. Meservey is currently VP of Communications at Substack and previous work history includes positions at the World Bank, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and McLarty Associates strategic advisory firm, as well as co-founding TrailRunner International.

Carr has held several senior positions at Bacardi limited since 2014, currently serving as the Senior VP of Global Performance Management, and previously worked at Kid Brands, Inc, Avon Products, AT&T, the American Broadcasting Company, Deloitte & Touche, and The Walt Disney Company. Lulu Cheng Meservey and Kelly Carr will effectively replace Hendrik Hartong and Casey Wasserman, pending approval at the upcoming annual shareholder meeting.

Activision Blizzard was previously criticized for failing to meet a relatively new California state law requiring a minimum of three female directors on boards numbering 6 members or more. The company claimed to have begun a search, but were unable to conclude the process by the end of 2021 deadline, due to