Quickflix board given a shake up

Online DVD rental and subscription service Quickflix has announced a major shake-up to the company board, to take effect later this year.

Simon Baker, former managing director and chief executive of the REA Group and former WIN Corp. chief financial officer Ross McCreath will join the company’s board as non-executive directors.

Baker currently has a 6.4% share in Quickflix.

The two will join current board members Stephen Langsford and Simon Hodge, and will replace Kevin Campbell and Jon Schahinger. Campbell said in a statement the decision was based on the needs of the company.

“We concluded that the board changes would provide additional vigour to drive the next stage of Quickflix’s growth plans and are pleased to have identified two highly qualified individuals,” he said.

“We are delighted to be appointing two such high calibre individuals to the board of directors. They bring with them significant online, media and business expertise and we look forward to their contribution as we extend our lead and develop Quickflix into a major internet, media and entertainment brand,” Langsford said in a statement.