Gunter Thielen Elected Chairman of Bertelsmann AG Supervisory Board
Gunter Thielen is the new Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bertelsmann AG. The former Bertelsmann AG Chairman & CEO has sat on the supervisory body since Jan 1, 2008 and has now been elected its new chairman in a written ballot. Thielen succeeds Dieter Vogel, who stepped down at the end of last year after serving as Supervisory Board Chairman for a total of eleven years. The first supervisory board meeting chaired by Gunter Thielen is scheduled for January 25.
As part of the agreed-upon further separation of shareholder and corporate interests, Gunter Thielen left the Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft (BVG), which unites all the voting rights in Bertelsmann AG, at the end of 2007. Gunter Thielen’s successor as BVG shareholder will be elected in due course by the BVG shareholder meeting.
Willi Pfannkuche, longtime works council chairman at Mohn Media and one of the four employee representatives on the Bertelsmann AG Supervisory Board, also left at the end of the year, having taken early retirement. His successor on the supervisory board will be elected by Bertelsmann AG’s regular Annual General Meeting in April 2008, following a nomination procedure.
The Bertelsmann AG Supervisory Board now comprises the following members:
Dr. Gunter Thielen, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh (Chairman of the Supervisory Board)
Prof. Jürgen Strube, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, BASF AG, Ludwigshafen and Shareholder of the Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Gütersloh
(Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board)
Dr. Wulf H. Bernotat, Chairman of the Board of Management and Chief Executive Officer, E.ON AG, Düsseldorf
John R. Joyce,Managing Director, Silver Lake Partners, New York
Dr. Karl-Ludwig Kley, Chairman of the Executive Board of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt
Dr. Hans-Joachim Körber, Chairman of the Executive Board, Metro AG, Düsseldorf until October 31, 2007
Oswald Lexer, Vice Chairman of the Bertelsmann AG Corporate Works Council, Gütersloh
Prof. Joachim Milberg, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, BMW AG, Munich
Brigitte Mohn, Chairwoman of the Stiftung Deutsche Schlaganfallhilfe, Member of the Board of the Bertelsmann Stiftung and Shareholder in Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Gütersloh
Christoph Mohn, Chief Executive Officer of Lycos Europe N.V, Haarlem
Liz Mohn, Vice CEO of the Bertelsmann Stiftung, Vice Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of the Bertelsmann Stiftung and Chairwoman of the Board of Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Gütersloh
Erich Ruppik, Chairman of the Bertelsmann AG Corporate Works Council, Gütersloh
Richard Sarnoff, Chairman of the Bertelsmann AG Management Representative Committee, President, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, New York
Lars Rebien Sørensen, President and Chief Executive Officer, Novo Nordisk A/S, Bagsvaerd
Reinhard Mohn is the Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board.
About Bertelsmann AG
Bertelsmann is an international media company encompassing television (RTL Group), book publishing (Random House), magazine publishing (Gruner + Jahr), music (BMG), media services (Arvato), and media clubs (Direct Group) in more than 60 countries. Bertelsmann’s claim is to inspire people around the world with first-class media and communications offerings – entertainment, information and services – and occupy leading positions in its respective markets. The foundation of Bertelsmann's success is a corporate culture based on partnership, entrepreneurial spirit, creativity, and corporate responsibility. The company strives to bring creative new ideas to market and create value.
Bertelsmann is comprised of the television channels, television production companies, and radio stations of Europe's largest entertainment group, RTL Group (RTL Television, M6, Five, Fremantle Media), and the more than 120 publishing houses of Random House, the world's largest trade book publisher (Alfred A. Knopf, Bantam, Goldmann). Gruner + Jahr is Europe's number one magazine publisher (Stern, Geo, Neon, Capital). The Sony BMG joint venture in the BMG division is synonymous with creativity and strong international music brands (Beyoncé, Dixie Chicks, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera). The Arvato media and communications services division brings together distribution, service centers and customer-relationship management, state-of-the art printing manufacturing, storage media production, mobile services, and comprehensive IT services. Bertelsmann's direct-to-customer businesses are unified within the Direct Group: book, DVD, and music clubs (Der Club, France Loisirs), as well as book retailers in France and Portugal.
For further questions, please contact:
Andreas Grafemeyer
Senior Vice President Media Relations
Phone: +49 – 5241 / 80 24 66
andreas.grafemeyer@bertelsmann.de
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