Living-e AG
living-e AG: Wolfgang Kemna new chief executive officer of living-e
living-e 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wolfgang Kemna new chief executive officer of living-e The completion of the executive board marks the beginning of the company’s realignment Karlsruhe / Germany, 10 July 2007 – With immediate effect, living-e AG appointed Dr. Wolfgang Kemna (49) as chairman of its executive board (Chief Executive Officer / CEO). From 2004 to 2007, Kemna worked as Managing Director of Steeb Anwendungssysteme GmbH, a subsidiary of SAP. Prior to this assignment, he held various management positions with SAP, among others as a managing director of SAP South Africa, of SAP Germany, and of SAP America. Guido Polko, the previous CEO of living-e, assumed the position of Chief Operating Officer (COO), also with immediate effect, and will accelerate the internationalization of the company by focusing on the United States of America. His range of tasks will also include potential acquisitions of engineering & consulting businesses. Polko was in charge of living-e since the company was incorporated in 2003 and ensured its initial public offering in July 2006 (Entry Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange). 'The appointment of Wolfgang Kemna completes the management team of living-e, provides a high level of competence in the area of enterprise software, and now publicly shows the realignment of the company, which has been prepared in the past few months. With this highly qualified pair of operationally experienced managers as well as an experienced Chief Financial Officer (Dr. Peter Tepassé / CFO) and a dynamic Chief Technical Officer (Vukasin Toroman / CTO), living-e meets the challenge of establishing a new market segment in the area of enterprise software,' said Klaus Tschira, strategic investor in living-e and co-founder of SAP AG. As already announced on the occasion of its IPO in 2006, living-e will develop, in the future, also software over and beyond its web content management system webEdition that has successfully been accepted by the market and possibly make acquisitions to boost its growth. The resulting solutions will focus on areas, which are of critical importance to businesses and increase, in particular, the efficiency of enterprise management. It is expected that the first products will be presented during the CeBIT 2008 fair. living-e AG Patrick Habel Director Sales & PR Patrick.habel@living-e.de Phone +49-(0)721-20188-10 www.living-e.de DGAP 10.07.2007 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Issuer: living-e AG Karlsburger Strasse 2 76227 Karlsruhe Deutschland Phone: +49 (0)721 20 188 10 Fax: +49 (0)721 20 188 99 E-mail: info@living-e.de Internet: www.living-e.de ISIN: DE000A0J2XA3 WKN: A0J2XA Indices: Listed: Freiverkehr in Berlin-Bremen, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart; Entry Standard in Frankfurt End of News DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Latest News
Latest Reports
No Reports found
Upcoming Events
No Events found
Webcasts
No Webcasts found