Thursday, February 26, 2009

Third Director in a Month Leaves MEC

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Anthony R. Campbell has resigned as a director of the board of Magna Entertainment Corp., the third director to leave the company in a month, and the second in the span of five days.

MEC announced late Feb. 25 in a two-paragraph news release that Campbell “stepped down as director of MEC, effective immediately.” Campbell, a partner in Knott Partners Management, one of MEC’s largest institutional shareholders, had been a MEC board member since September 2007.

The resignation follows the Feb. 20 departure of Jerry D. Campbell, who had been a director since 2000, and was briefly the company’s chief executive officer. In a subsequent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, MEC said it was no longer in compliance with listing rules for the Nasdaq stock exchange, because it had less than three independent directors on its audit committee, but hoped to rectify the situation by its annual shareholder meeting, a date for which has not been announced.

On Jan. 26, Charlie J. Williams resigned from the board, citing a need to tend to other business matters. He had been a director since February 2007.
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