Changes in Top Marketing Personnel: Thorsten Pütsch Will Head Marketing at SAT.1 / Oliver Kempfer at ProSieben / Veronika Heyne at kabel eins as of October 1
Unterföhring, September 16, 2011. Marketing at ProSiebenSat.1 TV
Deutschland GmbH will see organizational changes as of October 1 of
this year. Former ProSieben Head of Marketing Thorsten Pütsch, 41,
will assume responsibility for the same area at SAT.1. That
position has been held heretofore on an acting basis by Markan
Karajica, Chief Marketing & Commercial Officer of
ProSiebenSat.1 TV. Oliver Kempfer, 47, formerly Head of Marketing
at kabel eins, will assume Pütsch's former marketing
responsibilities at ProSieben. Kempfer's own former
responsibilities at kabel eins will be taken over in turn by
Veronika Heine, 29, former product manager in marketing at
ProSiebenSat.1 TV Deutschland GmbH. Sanela Smailhodzic, 36, will
continue to head marketing at sixx.
After studying political science, Thorsten Pütsch joined
ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG as a PR trainee in June 1998, and
subsequently became a PR editor in Corporate Communications. He
also assumed the position of press spokesman for N24 as of November
1999. The responsibility for marketing at N24 was added in November
2001, and in 2008 he became the Unit Director for magazines. Since
February 2009 he has been Vice President Unit Entertainment &
Sport in marketing at ProSiebenSat.1 TV Deutschland GmbH and Head
of Marketing at ProSieben.
Oliver Kempfer joined ProSiebenSat.1 in 1996, after studying
business administration and sports science. He has held a wide
variety of positions since starting as a volunteer on Starwatch,
including as head of Product Management and Deputy Head of
Marketing at ProSieben. Since June 2009 he has been Vice President
Unit Fiction in Marketing at ProSiebenSat.1 TV and Head of
Marketing at kabel eins.
Veronika Heyne has been with the Company's marketing operations
for four years. After studying business administration with a
specialization in media and product management, she joined station
ProSieben as a trainee in marketing and product management in
August 2007. In 2009 she was appointed a Junior Brand Manager in
Marketing at ProSieben. Since 2010, she has been a Product Manager
in Marketing at ProSiebenSat.1 TV Deutschland GmbH, in charge of
series on ProSieben and fiction programming on sixx.
For further information:
ProSiebenSat.1 TV Deutschland GmbH
Corporate Communications
Susanne Lang
Phone 089-9507-1183
Susanne.Lang@ProSiebenSat1.com