BATM Advanced Communications Limited announced that at the annual general meeting held on August 16, 2013, the shareholders approved that Mr. Gideon Barak has been appointed as an external director of the group, as required under Israeli law, for a term of three years with immediate effect and replacing Mr. Amos Shani, who has retired on expiry of his term of office. Mr. Barak has held senior executive and non-executive positions in numerous leading Israeli technology companies since 1984, including currently being a director of Spikko Telecom Ltd.