Tipp24 AG: two new members of the Executive Board
Mar 27, 2008 4:57 PM
Tipp24 AG / Change of Personnel Release of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer / publisher is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Founder Jens Schumann appointed Chairman of Executive Board (Hamburg, 27 March 2008) Effective 1 April 2008, the Supervisory Board of Tipp24 AG has decided to expand the Executive Board with the addition of two new seats. The expansion reflects the growth and strategic alignment of the Group. There will also be a reallocation of responsibilities. Marcus Geiss (37), General Manager of Tipp24’s Italian subsidiary Puntogioco24 since 2003 and Head of Corporate Development since mid 2007, will be the Executive Board member with responsibility for Corporate Development and more recent foreign business. Geiss will focus increasingly on Tipp24’s future markets. Petra von Strombeck (38) was hired by the Group in November 2007 as Head of Marketing. In future, she will be the Executive Board member with responsibility for Marketing, which is also to be expanded internationally. The founder and Executive Board member Jens Schumann (34) will assume the newly created position of Chairman of the Executive Board as of 31 March 2008. Schumann will also be responsible for the areas of Strategy, Lobbying and Public Relations. Dr. Hans Cornehl (40), who has been with Tipp24 since 2002 and mainly responsible for finance, has been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board. Dr. Cornehl will also be responsible for the HR and Technology divisions and for the Spanish market. About Tipp24 AG: Tipp24 was established in 1999 and is now the market leader for lottery products in the Internet on the basis of billings. The company has succeeded in achieving impressive growth rates right from the start. Almost all state lottery products are supplied. It only takes a few mouse clicks to buy a lottery ticket – round the clock, quickly and reliably. The ticket receipt is kept safely, winners are notified about their prizes automatically by text message and e-mail and prizes are credited automatically. Subsidiaries of Tipp24 (www.tipp24.de) are Ventura24 in Spain (www.ventura24.es), Puntogioco24 (www.puntogioco24.it) in Italy and MyLotto24 (www.mylotto24.co.uk) in the UK. Shares in Tipp24 AG have been traded at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2005. Tipp24 AG Andrea Fratini Head of Media and Public Relations Tel.: +49 40 32 55 33-660 Fax: +49 40 32 55 33-5600 E-mail: presse@tipp24.de Internet: www.tipp24.de/presse/ 27.03.2008 Financial News transmitted by DGAP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Issuer: Tipp24 AG Straßenbahnring 11-13 20251 Hamburg Deutschland Phone: +49 (0)40 325533-0 Fax: +49 (0)40 325533-77 E-mail: office@tipp24.de Internet: www.tipp24-ag.de ISIN: DE0007847147 WKN: 784714 Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, München, Stuttgart End of News DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------