UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM
8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
Pursuant
to Section 13 or 15(d)
of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date
of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 27, 2009
MANDALAY
MEDIA, INC.
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Delaware
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00-10039
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22-2267658
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(State
or other jurisdiction
of
incorporation)
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(Commission
File Number)
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(IRS
Employer
Identification
No.)
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2121
Avenue of the Stars, Suite 2550
Los
Angeles, CA 90067
(Address
of principal executive offices and zip code)
Registrant’s
telephone number, including area code: (310) 601-2500
Check the
appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously
satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following
provisions (see General
Instruction A.2. below):
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material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
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ITEM
5.02 DEPARTURE OF DIRECTORS OR CERTAIN OFFICERS; ELECTION OF DIRECTORS;
APPOINTMENT OF CERTAIN OFFICERS; COMPENSATORY ARRANGEMENTS OF CERTAIN
OFFICERS.
Effective
October 27, 2009, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Mandalay Media, Inc.
(the “Company”) appointed Ray Schaaf as President of the Company and James
Lefkowitz as Chief Operating Officer of the Company. Mr. Lefkowitz previously
served as President of the Company.
Mr.
Schaaf, age 48, has 25 years of digital media experience, including games,
content, ecommerce, and mobile industries. Prior to joining the Company, from
2007 to 2009, Mr Schaaf served as president and chief executive officer of
Arcadia Entertainment, Inc. From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Schaaf was chief operating
officer of Navio, a digital content, ecommerce, and promotions solution provider
to Fox Interactive Media, Shockwave, Disney, Sony BMG, EMI, and MasterCard.
Prior to Navio, from 2003 to 2005, he was president of publishing at Glu Mobile
(previously Sorrent) and president of Intershop, where he oversaw the Americas
and APAC operations, managing both operations to profitability. Prior to
Intershop, Mr. Schaaf was chief executive officer and president of XMARC, where
he launched the first location-based application deployed on a public wireless
network. He has also held executive management positions at Veritas Software,
NeXT Computers, and Ziff Davis. Mr. Schaaf received his B.S. degree in business
from Boston College.
Mr.
Lefkowitz, 50, has served as President of the Company since June 2007. He is a
20 year entertainment industry veteran with a wide range of experience in law,
business, finance, film and television. Mr. Lefkowitz joined Mandalay from
Cantor Fitzgerald (“Cantor”), where he was managing director of Cantor
Entertainment. Prior to Cantor, Mr. Lefkowitz was an agent for eight years at
Creative Artists Agency, the premiere talent agency in Hollywood, where he
represented actors, writers and directors. He began his career as an attorney at
the law firm of Manatt, Phelps, and Phillips in Los Angeles. He subsequently
worked for six years as a business affairs executive at Walt Disney Studios and
Touchstone Pictures. Mr. Lefkowitz is a graduate of the University of Michigan
School of Business Administration and Michigan Law School.
Neither
Mr. Schaaf nor Mr. Lefkowitz have any family relations with any directors or
executive officers of the Company. There are no transactions to which
the Company is a party and in which Mr. Schaaf or Mr. Lefkowitz has a material
interest that are required to be disclosed under Item 404(a), as modified by
Item 404(d)(1) of Regulation S-K.
The
Company and Mr. Lefkowitz are parties to that certain Employment Letter, by and
between the Company and Mr. Lefkowitz, dated as of June 28, 2007, as amended by
the Salary Reduction Letter by and between the Company and Mr. Lefkowitz, dated
March 16, 2009, the material terms of which were previously disclosed in those
Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on July 3, 2007 and March 20, 2009,
respectively, which are incorporated herein by reference.
ITEM
8.01 OTHER EVENTS.
On October 28, 2009, the Company issued
a press release announcing the appointment of Mr. Schaaf as President of the
Company, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated
herein by reference.
ITEM 9.01 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
AND EXHIBITS.
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Exhibit
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Description
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99.1
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Press
Release dated October 28, 2009.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto
duly authorized.
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MANDALAY
MEDIA, INC.
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By: |
/s/ James
Lefkowitz |
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James
Lefkowitz |
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Dated:
November 2, 2009
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Chief
Operating Officer |
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