Gunnar Wiedenfels and Ralf Schremper Appointed to the ProSiebenSat.1 Executive Board
Munich, September 10, 2014. Dr. Gunnar
Wiedenfels (37) and Dr. Ralf Schremper (42) will be appointed to
the Executive Board of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG as of April 1, 2015.
Gunnar Wiedenfels will become Chief Financial Officer. Dr. Ralf
Schremper will assume the newly created "Corporate Strategy and
Investments" executive department. Axel Salzmann (55) will leave
the company at his own request on March 31, 2015. He has been CFO
of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG since June 2008; from January to March
2009 he was acting CEO.
Dr. Werner Brandt, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of
ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG: "I am delighted that again two colleagues
from the company's ranks, Dr. Gunnar Wiedenfels and Dr. Ralf
Schremper, will be appointed to the Executive Board of
ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG. Both have been contributing to the
company's success for years. On behalf of the Supervisory Board, I
thank Axel Salzmann warmly for his outstanding commitment to
ProSiebenSat.1. In recent years, Mr. Salzmann has made a crucial
contribution to putting the company on today's sound financial
foundation."
Thomas Ebeling: "On behalf of the Executive Board, I thank Axel
Salzmann warmly for his many years of very successful work for our
company. In the last six years, he has ensured that ProSiebenSat.1
has stood on an extraordinarily solid financial foundation and has
thus created an important basis of trust in the capital market. We
will continue building on this basis in future and adhere to our
present growth philosophy and the financing principles communicated
previously. We thus believe that we are right on track to achieve
our medium-term growth targets by 2018."
Before Dr. Gunnar Wiedenfels joined the
ProSiebenSat.1 Group in 2009, he worked for six years as a
management consultant and engagement manager at McKinsey &
Company. At ProSiebenSat.1, he first worked in the Executive
Board's Strategy division. From March 2010 to November 2011, he was
responsible for Group-wide budget planning, budget controlling, and
management reporting as Deputy Group Controller. From February
2011, he also had commercial responsibility for the Group's
German-speaking free TV segment as CFO National. In 2012, he was
also appointed to the management of TV Deutschland GmbH and named
Chief Group Controller. He has been Deputy CFO since March
2014.
Until 2009, Dr. Ralf Schremper worked for
Bertelsmann AG, where he most recently headed corporate
development. Since 2010, he has been Executive Vice President of
Mergers & Acquisitions at ProSiebenSat.1. In addition, in 2011
he was first Head of Group Controlling and then CFO and Managing
Director of the Red Arrow Entertainment Group. In March 2013, he
took on the role of CFO and Managing Director of Digital &
Adjacent in addition to his M&A activities. He has been Chief
Investment Officer since April 2014.
Contact:
Julian Geist
Corporate Communications
ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG
Medienallee 7
D-85774 Unterföhring
Germany
Tel.+49 [89] 95 07-1151
Fax +49 [89] 95 07-91151
E-mail: Julian.Geist@ProSiebenSat1.com