Sky Deutschland AG / Key word(s): Change of Personnel/Change of Personnel
25.11.2010 17:14
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* Steven Tomsic to become new CFO from 1 February 2011
* Pietro Maranzana to join Sky Italia as Deputy CFO
Munich, 25 November 2010. Sky Deutschland AG today announces that Steven
Tomsic has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer, taking over from
Pietro Maranzana who is returning to Italy to become Deputy Chief Financial
Officer of Sky Italia.
Tomsic is currently Director Corporate Finance and Planning, Europe and
Asia, News Corporation, and a member of Sky Deutschland's Supervisory
Board. He will join Sky Deutschland on 6 December as Deputy Chief Financial
Officer to work alongside Maranzana for a two-month handover before taking
over as Chief Financial Officer on 1 February 2011. He will not serve as a
Supervisory Board member with effect from 5 December.
Prior to his current role as Director Corporate Finance & Planning, Europe
and Asia, News Corporation, Steven Tomsic was Chief Financial Officer at
News Corporation's European channels business and before that held senior
strategy and business development roles at Sky Italia and Foxtel in
Australia. Prior to joining News Corporation, he held Australia-based roles
as a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group and in corporate finance
with Nomura and ANZ Bank.
Pietro Maranzana has been Chief Financial Officer at Sky Deutschland since
1 June 2009 having joined the company in November 2008 as Senior Vice
President Finance. Previously, he was responsible for business planning at
Sky Italia, which he joined in 2005.
This press release is available on the Internet at info.sky.de.
Contact for press:
Wolfram Winter
Senior Vice President
Tel.: +49 89/99 58-50 00
wolfram.winter@sky.de
Contact for investors and analysts:
Christine Scheil
Vice President Investor Relations
Tel.: +49 89/99 58-10 10
christine.scheil@sky.de
This release contains statements regarding future developments that have
been based on current evaluations and have been made to best of the
knowledge of the management of Sky Deutschland AG. Such statements with
regard to future developments are subject to known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors that could cause the profit situation,
profitability, value development or the performance of Sky Deutschland AG
or the success of the media industry to diverge from those profit
situations, profitability, value development or performance results that
are assumed expressly or implied or described in these statements regarding
the future. Considering these risks, uncertainties and well as other
factors, readers of these documents should not rely in an incommensurate
manner on these statements dealing with future developments. Sky
Deutschland AG has no obligation to behave in keeping with such statements
regarding future developments or to alter its behavior to accommodate
future events and developments.
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Language: English
Company: Sky Deutschland AG
Medienallee 26
85774 Unterföhring
Deutschland
Phone: +49 (0)89 9958-02
Fax: +49 (0)89 9958-6239
E-mail: ir@sky.de
Internet: info.sky.de
ISIN: DE000SKYD000
WKN: SKYD00
Indices: MDAX
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
in Hamburg, München, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Stuttgart, Hannover
End of Announcement DGAP News-Service
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