Sat.1 Management Restructured/Torsten Rossmann Joins as Managing Director/Matthias Alberti Appointed Chairman
Munich, December 13, 2007. To strengthen management resources at Sat.1, the Berlin stations management will be restructured as of January 1, 2008. The ProSiebenSat.1 Groups Executive Board has appointed Dr. Torsten Rossmann, 44, as an additional Managing Director of Sat.1. Rossmann will be in charge of Information & Magazines, Marketing, and Controlling.
Matthias Alberti, 44, has been appointed Chairman of the Management Board. Volker Szezinski, 47, as Deputy Managing Director, will also have responsibility for German Fiction, in addition to Scheduling, Licensed Programming, and Co-productions. Alongside his management position at Sat.1, Dr. Rossmann will remain Chairman of the Management Board of news station N24.
Said Guillaume de Posch, CEO of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG: By adding Torsten Rossmann as a Managing Director, we hope to strengthen Sat.1 especially in Information and News. I am certain that Dr. Rossmann will quickly make his mark here, and strengthen the stations profile. The entire management team around Matthias Alberti has the full support of the Executive Board. I am confident that in the coming year Sat.1 will strengthen its performance and expand its position as a full-service channel for the whole family.