Prosus N.V.
(Incorporated in the Netherlands)
(Legal Entity Identifier: 635400Z5LQ5F9OLVT688)
AEX and JSE Share Code: PRX ISIN: NL0013654783
(Prosus)
CHANGES TO THE COMPOSITION OF THE BOARD AND COMMITTEES
The board of directors ("Board") has decided to nominate Arnold Goldberg (58) for appointment as an independent non-executive director of Prosus at the next annual general meeting.
With effect from 19 May 2026, Mr Goldberg is expected to be appointed as an independent non-executive director of Naspers Limited. Mr Goldberg is expected to be classified as an independent non-executive director of Naspers under the King Report IV on Corporate Governance for South Africa, 2016 and Prosus under the Dutch Corporate Governance Code.
Mr Goldberg earned a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida in 1990 and began his career as a Software Engineer at Harris Corporation and ABB Ltd., later contributing to IBM’s WebSphere Application Server. From 2000 to 2008, he held leadership roles at Hyperion Solutions and eBay, building infrastructure teams and setting technology standards. Between 2008 and 2012, he scaled startups like LinkedIn, launching platform initiatives, and Box, growing the engineering team 20x. At PayPal (2013–2021), he has led agile transformations, rebuilt merchant products, and oversaw 2 000+ employees and a US$400m budget, driving significant growth in revenue and market cap. Arnold joined Google in January 2022 as VP and GM of Payments, leading teams for Google Pay, Google Wallet and the Payments Platform, serving Billions of users. He drove an open ecosystem strategy, tripling growth rates, and expanded Google’s financial services into new technologies. Arnold stepped down in June 2025.
The Board confirms that in compliance with the JSE Listings Requirements fit and proper assessments have been conducted and that the Board is satisfied with the outcomes of the assessments. Additionally, the Group confirms that there are no positive statements to report in respect of the integrity information contained in the director’s declarations.
The Board takes great pleasure in welcoming Mr Goldberg.
Furthermore, Mr Roberto Oliveira de Lima will retire as an independent non-executive director of the board and the human resources and remuneration committee and nominations committee with effect from 1 July 2026. The board expresses its deepest gratitude to Roberto for his significant and invaluable contributions to the Naspers Group over many years.
Ying Xu, an independent non-executive director, will join the human resources and remuneration committee with effect from 1 July 2026.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
19 May 2026
JSE sponsor to Prosus
Investec Bank Limited
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About Prosus
Prosus is the power behind the world’s leading lifestyle ecommerce brands, across Europe, India, and Latin America, unlocking an AI-first world for our 2 billion customers.
The Prosus technology ecosystem spans food delivery, payments, classifieds, travel, events, and mobility. Our integrated approach enhances user engagement and creates the foundation for unprecedented AI capabilities through proprietary data and cross-service intelligence.
Through Prosus Ventures, we invest in companies which inspire and support the Prosus ecosystem. We search for new opportunities at the leading edge of AI and ecommerce, the digital AI workforce and in frontier technologies, such as robotics, drones and synbio.
The team actively backs exceptional entrepreneurs who are using technology to improve people’s everyday lives.
To find out more, please visit www.prosus.com.
Disclaimer
The Repurchase Programme is being conducted in accordance with Articles 5(1) and 5(3) of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (“Market Abuse Regulation”) and Articles 2 to 4 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 supplementing the Market Abuse Regulation with regard to regulatory technical standards for the conditions applicable to buy-back programmes and stabilisation measures (the “Delegated Regulation”). This document is issued in connection with the disclosure and reporting obligation set out in Article 2(1) of the Delegated Regulation.
This document contains information that qualifies as inside information within the meaning of Article 7(1) of the Market Abuse Regulation.
This announcement does not constitute, or form part of, an offer or any solicitation of an offer for securities in any jurisdiction.
The information contained in this announcement may contain forward-looking statements, estimates and projections. Forward-looking statements involve all matters that are not historical and may be identified by the words “anticipate”, ”believe”, ”estimate”, ”expect”, ”intend”, ”may”, ”should”, ”will”, ”would” and similar expressions or their negatives, but the absence of these words does not necessarily mean that a statement is not forward-looking. These statements reflect Prosus’s intentions, beliefs or current expectations, involve elements of subjective judgement and analysis and are based upon the best judgement of Prosus as of the date of this announcement, but could prove to be wrong. These statements are subject to change without notice and are based on a number of assumptions and entail known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Therefore, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results.
Any forward-looking statements are made only as of the date of this announcement and neither Prosus nor any other person gives any undertaking, or is under any obligation, to update these forward-looking statements for events or circumstances that occur subsequent to the date of this announcement or to update or keep current any of the information contained herein, any changes in assumptions or changes in factors affecting these statements and this announcement is not a representation by Prosus or any other person that they will do so, except to the extent required by law.
