Ad hoc: Management board change at Koenig & Bauer AG: Mathias Dähn takes over as CFO from Axel Kaufmann

Koenig & Bauer AG / Keyword(s): Board of directors / Ad hoc: Management board change at Koenig & Bauer AG: Mathias Dähn takes over as CFO from Axel Kaufmann . Ad hoc announcement according to § 15 WpHG. Processed and transmitted by Nasdaq OMX Corporate Solutions. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.

Dr Axel Kaufmann (44), CFO at Koenig & Bauer (KBA) since October 2010, will leave the press manufacturer at his own request to pursue new professional challenges. The KBA supervisory board appointed Dr Mathias Dähn as Mr Kaufmann's successor in today's meeting. Mr Dähn who holds a doctorate in business administration has a broad financial and industrial background at an international level with extensive experience in controlling, purchasing, M&A and optimising commercial processes. He has held various managerial posts in the past at Robert Bosch, telecommunications group debitel, Loyalty Partner, the MAN Group and more recently as CFO at Austrian lighting manufacturer Zumtobel. Mathias Dähn will start this management board mandate at the beginning of June 2014. Following a mutually agreed time period, he will take over all of the duties pertaining to this position from Mr Kaufmann. Until he leaves the management board Axel Kaufmann has agreed to be available to facilitate a smooth transition. After holding various executive positions within the Siemens group for more than ten years, in 2010 Axel Kaufmann left global network supplier Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) to become CFO at KBA.

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