HONG KONG, LOS ANGELES and BERLIN, Sept. 8, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Artificial Life, Inc., (OTCBB:ALIF) (http://www.artificial-life.com), a leading provider of award-winning mobile technology and applications, announced today that it has appointed Mr. Kazutoshi Miyake as a new member of its Board of Directors and Audit Committee, effective September 2, 2010.
Mr. Miyake is a well known and very experienced games industry veteran. He has worked for over 30 years in various international business development and senior management positions.
From 1972 to 1993, Mr. Miyake was Manager of Nissho Iwai Corp, Japan's leading trading house. From 1993 to 1994, he was General Manager of Sega Enterprises Japan, responsible for Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific, and then from 1994 to 2001, he was CEO of Sega Europe. From 2001 to 2003, he held several board positions with companies including Andromeda, Akaei and Infogrames. Since 2003, he has been CEO of Stride Asia, CEO of Atari Japan and Chairman of Telcogames.
Mr. Miyake replaces Claudia Alsdorf, who resigned as a member of the Board and the Audit Committee effective September 1, 2010 following her acceptance of a new position as CEO of a start-up mobile company.
"We are excited to have such an experienced manager and gaming expert on our board now. Kazu-san has an impressive CV and will certainly be a major contributor to our future Japan and Asian activities in general. I also want to take this opportunity to thank Claudia for her great support over the last years and wish her all the best luck with her new job and responsibilities," said Eberhard Schoneburg, CEO, Artificial Life, Inc.
About Artificial Life, Inc.
Artificial Life, Inc. has been a pioneer in artificial intelligence and mobile technology since its inception in Boston in 1994. We are a public US corporation (OTCBB:ALIF) with secondary listings on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Frankfurt:AIF) Xetra (XETRA:AIF) and headquarters and production center in Hong Kong. We have additional offices in Berlin, Germany (EMEA headquarters) and Tokyo, Japan. Currently our main business areas are: high quality (3D) interactive (massive multiplayer) mobile games, mobile participation television, mobile business applications, our powerful mobile commerce technology platform OPUS-MTM and our green IT solutions provided by Green Cortex, Inc. We have won many industry awards for our outstanding technology and products.
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