Tinkerine Annual General Meeting Results and Appointments to Board of Directors Vancouver, B.C. – June 24, 2016 Tinkerine Studios Ltd. (“Tinkerine” or the “Company”) (TSXV: TTD, FSE: WKN WB6B and OTC: TKSTF) i?s pleased to ?announce results from the Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) held on June 23, 2016 in Vancouver, British Columbia. In addition to the existing directors, the Company has added Mr. Bob Longo and Mr. Justin Sy to the Board of Directors. New Additions to the Board of Directors Mr. Bob Longo Mr. Longo is current Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and President of Knowmatters, Inc., a USbased education firm focused on cognitive learning and artificial intelligence. Mr. Longo has specific expertise in CEO strategic and operational support, sales, marketing, executive general management and strategic planning. Mr. Longo previously held senior positions with Apple Inc., Carnegie Learning, Studywiz, SchoolOne and NeXT Inc. During his tenure at Apple and NeXT his duties included responsibilities in both the K12 and Higher Education markets. Mr. Longo worked with Steve Jobs three times. He headed up the K12 market and later was President of Apple’s PowerSchool Division, leading it to three consecutive years of increased growth in revenue, profit and market share. This included recognition as the Software Information Industry Association’s (SIIA) CODIE winner each year, for Best Software in its category. Mr. Longo was President, CEO and Vice Chairman at Carnegie Learning, a leading adaptive math software developer and publisher. He successfully launched the Carnegie Mellon’s spinout penetrating 40% of the largest 100 US School Districts in its first 36 months, while tripling revenue each year. At Carnegie Learning he was recognized as an Ernst & Young Software Entrepreneur of the Year and was twice invited to present to the US governors at their Education Technology Summit. At both PowerSchool and Carnegie Learning his teams secured 99% Customer Retention Rates. Mr. Longo was Executive Vice President at Studywiz, and was responsible for the expansion of sales to K12 schools in North America and for developing strategic relationships with major industry partners including Apple, Google and Microsoft. Mr. Longo was CEO of SchoolOne, an education technology company that developed and marketed webbased, enterprise, information software solutions to the K12 market, their clients included all of the Catholic Schools in the Silicon Valley. Mr. Justin Sy, Interim Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) Mr. Sy is one of the founders of Tinkerine and has been directly involved in the development of software for the DittoPro 3D Printer. Mr. Sy has participated in a number of 3D printing related competitions and is the founder of Puppeteer, a 3D imaging software used to control hand motions via a connected glove. Mr. Sy received a runnerup award for this project in the BCNET Digital Media Challlenge. Mr. Sy also holds a B.Sc from Simon Fraser University. Mr. Sy was appointed interim CFO on February 24, 2016.
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