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ots Ad hoc-Service: DEAG AG <DE0005513907> DEAG appoints new board members Plans to convert STELLA into an AG (limited company)/e

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DEAG subsidiary STELLA is to be converted into an AG (limited
company) and will in future trade as STELLA Entertainment AG. In the
course of conversion, current management spokesman Klaus von der
Heyde, 59, will be named as board chairman and chief executive
officer (CEO). Finance will be handled by Thomas Nedtwig, 40,chief
financial officer (CFO), who previously held the same post at DEAG
and has been in overall charge of the acquisition of STELLA. Wolf
Dieter Werner, 48, will be chief operating officer (COO) in charge of
administration and human resources. He has worked for 10 years as
personnel manager, latterly at the Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen.
Simultaneously, Dietmar Glodde, 42, joins the DEAG board as chief
operating officer. He was latterly managing director of DoRo Film-
und Fernsehproduktionsgesellschaft, Vienna, Austria, and previously,
for many years, managing director of Mercury Records in Hamburg,
Germany. From 1987 he built up the Bertelsmann Music Group in Asia,
serving in a managerial capacity in Tokyo. From 1991 until the end of
1993 he was managing director of the BMG companies based in
Copenhagen, Denmark. Mr. Glodde has comprehensive experience in the
international music business and will be in charge of the company's
Artists and Tours, Urban Entertainment and Theatres operating
business units.
Klaus Ulrich, 40, and Frank Reinhardt, 44, are staying with the
company. As a board member Mr. Ulrich retains responsibility for
tours and festivals, while Mr. Reinhardt has resigned from the board
at his own wish but retains close ties with DEAG in an advisory
capacity, with a contract for several years as a consultant
specializing in venues and urban entertainment centres.
Markus Fabis, 34, is taking over as CFO at DEAG. Mr. Fabis comes
from accountants Deloitte & Touche, where he held a senior position
as an auditor and tax advisor and was in charge of the DEAG account
from when the company went public in September 1998.
Dr. Martin Fabel, 33, continues as board member in charge of Media
& Commerce with responsibility for commercial exploitation of
secondary rights to all DEAG content.
CEO Peter Schwenkow will be taking over as chairman of STELLA
Entertainment AG's supervisory board.
DEAG's supervisory board sees the new appointments and structure
as the optimal starting point for planned further growth both at DEAG
and at musical market leader STELLA.
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