ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG: New members of the Supervisory Board appointed
Munich, March 14, 2007. The composition of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AGs Supervisory Board has changed. The local court in Munich has appointed the following new members of the Supervisory Board: Götz Mäuser, Partner of Permira Beteiligungsberatung GmbH ("Permira"), Lord Clive Hollick, Partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. ("KKR"), Robin Bell-Jones, Principal of Permira Advisors LLP, Philipp Freise, Principal of KKR, Ulrich Gasse, Investment Professional of Permira, Reinhard Gorenflos, Partner of KKR, Johannes Huth, Partner of KKR and Head of Europe, Thomas Krenz, Partner of Permira and Head of Germany, Christian Neuss, Principal of Permira, Silke Scheiber, Principal of KKR, Harry Sloan, Chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Prof. Dr. Harald Wiedmann, President of the Accounting Standards Committee of Germany.
Following the appointment of the new members, the Supervisory Board elected Götz Mäuser as its new Chairman and Lord Clive Hollick as its new Vice Chairman.
Furthermore, Dr. Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer AG, Christian Nienhaus, Managing Director of BILD Group, and Greg Dyke, Consultant, continue to be members of the Supervisory Board.
The background for the new composition of the Supervisory Board is the change of the shareholder structure of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG. After the closing of the share purchase agreement between German Media Partners, the former majority shareholder of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, and Lavena Holding 4 GmbH, a holding company controlled by funds advised by KKR or Permira, on March 6, 2007, Chairman Haim Saban, Vice Chairman Adam Chesnoff as well as John Connaughton, Albert Dobron, Patrick Healy, Ynon Kreiz, Seth Lawry, Stephen Pagliuca, Brian Powers, Arieh Saban, Scott Sperling and Joshua Steiner as members of the Supervisory Board of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG had resigned from their office.