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Karl Slatoff was appointed President of Take-Two in May 2013. He previously served as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer since October 2010, and prior to that, held the position of Executive Vice President beginning in February 2008. Mr. Slatoff is a partner at ZelnickMedia who specializes in the area of music, direct marketing, broadcast television and radio, interactive entertainment and new media.

Mr. Slatoff served as Vice President, New Media for BMG Entertainment, one of the world's largest music companies whose labels include Arista Records, RCA Records and J Records and is home to such worldwide superstars as Whitney Houston, Annie Lennox, Christina Aguilera, Santana, Sarah McLachlan and the Dave Matthews Band, among many others. In this position, Mr. Slatoff was responsible for guiding BMG's online digital strategies, including the development of commercial digital distribution initiatives and new business models for the sale and syndication of online content. He was also responsible for maintaining relationships and leading negotiations with major software developers, consumer electronics manufactures and online retailers/portals, as well as representing BMG's interests in various industry consortiums relating to the development of digital businesses.

Mr. Slatoff joined BMG in 1998 as Manager, Corporate Development. In this position he worked closely with the company's then President and CEO Strauss Zelnick on a variety of corporate development initiatives. Before joining BMG, Mr. Slatoff worked in strategic planning at the Walt Disney Company, where he focused on the consumer products, studio and broadcast divisions, as well as several initiatives in the educational, publishing and new media sectors. Mr. Slatoff was also an active member of the integration team for Disney's 1996 acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC. Prior to Disney, Mr. Slatoff worked in the corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions units at Lehman Brothers where he focused on the consumer products and retail/merchandising industries. Mr. Slatoff received his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, and holds bachelor of arts degrees in English literature and economics from Kenyon College.