ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG Announces Candidates for Supervisory Board Election
Munich, May 19, 2014. ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG
has published the invitation to the 2014 Annual General Meeting. In
this context, the Company also announced the candidates for the
election to the ProSiebenSat.1 Supervisory Board. The full text is
available at the Company's website www.ProSiebenSat1.com and
in the Federal Gazette.
The current Supervisory Board nominates Dr. Werner Brandt, Chief
Financial Officer of SAP AG, as the new Chairman of the Supervisory
Board of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG. Dr. Brandt has been a member of
the SAP Executive Board since 2001 and also Chief Human Resources
Officer and Labor Relations Director since July 2013. Previously,
he was Chief Financial Officer at Fresenius Medical Care AG for two
years and from 1992 to 1999 a member of the Management Board and
Vice President European Operations of Baxter Deutschland GmbH. Dr.
Werner Brandt has many years of experience in Supervisory Boards of
DAX companies and current Supervisory Board positions include those
at Deutsche Lufthansa AG and RWE AG.
The Supervisory Board also nominates the following candidates
for election to the Supervisory Board:
Lawrence A. Aidem, Co-Founder, President and CEO of Iconic
Entertainment Inc., New York/USA
Antoinette P. Aris, Adjunct Professor of Strategy at INSEAD,
Fontainebleau/France
Adam Cahan, Senior Vice President Mobile and Emerging Products
at Yahoo Inc., Sunnyvale/USA
Dr. Marion Helmes, CFO and Speaker of the Management Board of
Celesio AG, Stuttgart/Germany
Erik Adrianus Hubertus Huggers, Senior Vice President and
President of Verizon Communications, New York/USA
The following are up for re-election:
Stefan Dziarski, Principal at Permira Beteiligungsberatung
GmbH, Frankfurt am Main/Germany (member of the Supervisory Board
from June 2008 to June 2009 and since May 2012)
Philipp Freise, Partner at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Ltd. (KKR), London/UK (member of the Supervisory Board since March
2007)
Prof. Harald Wiedmann, auditor, lawyer, tax advisor at Gleiss
Lutz Hootz Hirsch Partnergesellschaft von Rechtsanwälten,
Steuerberatern, Berlin/Germany (member of the Supervisory Board
since June 2009)
The terms of office of the current Supervisory Board Chairman
Johannes Huth and the long-standing Supervisory Board members Dr.
Jörg Rockenhäuser, Lord Clive Hollick and Götz Mäuser expire this
year as scheduled. They will not present themselves for re-election
at the Annual General Meeting. In accordance with the
recommendation of the German Corporate Governance Code, the
election of the new members of the Supervisory Board shall be
performed by individual elections.
The Annual General Meeting of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG is to take
place on June 26, 2014 in the Event Arena at the Munich
Olympiapark. Further information about the 2014 Annual General
Meeting and detailed resumes of the candidates for election to the
Supervisory Board can be found at our website www.ProSiebenSat1.com.
Contact:
Julian Geist
Corporate spokesman
ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG
Medienallee 7
D-85774 Unterföhring
Phone +49 [89] 95 07-1151
Fax +49 [89] 95 07-91151
E-mail:
Julian.Geist@ProSiebenSat1.com
Stefanie Prinz
Corporate Communications
ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG
Medienallee 7
D-85774 Unterföhring
Phone +49 [89] 95 07-1199
Fax +49 [89] 95 07-91199
E-mail:
Stefanie.Prinz@ProSiebenSat1.com