EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Gerhard Zeiler
Chief Executive Officer
Member of the Bertelsmann AG Executive Board
Gerhard Zeiler, born in 1955 in Vienna (Austria), joined RTL Group in November 1998 when he was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of RTL Television in Cologne. In this capacity, Zeiler was responsible for the German RTL family of channels (RTL Television, Vox, RTL II, Super RTL, N-TV). In March 2003 Gerhard Zeiler was additionally appointed CEO of RTL Group. He handed over the management of RTL Television to Anke Schäferkordt in September 2005 to fully concentrate on RTL Group’s international channel architecture. In his function as CEO of RTL Group, Gerhard Zeiler is a member of the Supervisory Boards of Groupe M6 in France and RTL Television in Germany, Chairman of the RTL Nederland Supervisory Board and Chairman of the Board of M-RTL in Hungary. He has been a member of the Bertelsmann AG Executive Board since October 2005.

Gerhard Zeiler began his career as a freelance journalist and then became press spokesman for the Austrian Minister for Education and the Arts, Dr Fred Sinowatz, whom he eventually followed to the Federal Chancellor Office in 1983. Later he continued working in the same capacity for Federal Chancellor Dr Franz Vranitzky. In 1986 he became Secretary-General of the Austrian public broadcaster ORF in Vienna. After a two-year period as CEO of Tele 5 and a further two-year period as CEO of RTL II, he was elected Chief Executive Officer of ORF in 1994 and stayed in this position until November 1998.

Elmar Heggen
Chief Financial Officer and Head of the Corporate Centre
Elmar Heggen, born in 1968, holds a diploma in Business Administration from the European Business School and graduated as Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance. In 1992, he started his career at the Felix Schoeller Group, becoming Vice President & General Manager of Felix Schoeller Digital Imaging in the UK in 1999. Elmar Heggen first joined the RTL Group Corporate Centre in 2000 as Vice President Merger & Acquisitions. In January 2003, he was promoted to Senior Vice President Controlling & Investments. From July 2003 until December 2005 he was Executive Vice President Strategy & Controlling. Since January 2006, Elmar Heggen has served on the RTL Group Executive Management team, where he is responsible for business development in the emerging markets of Southern, Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the radio business, and the Belgian market. Since 1 October 2006 Elmar Heggen is CFO and Head of the Corporate Centre of RTL Group.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Non-executive Directors
Siegfried Luther
Chairman of the Board of RTL Group
Martin Taylor*
Vice Chairman of the Board of RTL Group
Chairman of the Nomination and Compensation Committee of RTL Group
Chairman of Syngenta
Günther Grüger
Executive Vice President Corporate Controlling and Strategy, Bertelsmann AG
Hartmut Ostrowski
Chairman of the Executive Board
Chief Executive Officer, Bertelsmann AG
Thomas Rabe
Member of the Bertelsmann AG Executive Board
Chief Financial Officer
Head of the Corporate Centre, Bertelsmann AG
Onno Ruding*
Chairman of the Audit Committee of RTL Group
Chairman of the Board of Centre for European Policy Studies
Retired Vice Chairman and Director of Citibank
Jacques Santer*
Chairman of the Board of CLT-UFA
Former Prime Minister of the Luxembourg Government
Former President of the European Commission
Executive Director
Gerhard Zeiler
Chief Executive Officer
Member of the Bertelsmann AG Executive Board
*independant directors
AUDIT COMMITTEE
Onno Ruding
Chairman of the Audit Committee of RTL Group
Retired Vice Chairman and Director of Citibank
Chairman of the Board of Centre for European Policy Studies
Siegfried Luther
Chairman of the Board of RTL Group
Thomas Rabe
Member of the Bertelsmann AG Executive Board
Chief Financial Officer
Head of the Corporate Centre, Bertelsmann AG
Martin Taylor
Vice Chairman of the Board of RTL Group
Chairman of the Nomination and Compensation Committee of RTL Group
Chairman of Syngenta
NOMINATION AND COMPENSATION COMMITTEE
Martin Taylor
Vice Chairman of the Board of RTL Group
Chairman of the Nomination and Compensation Committee of RTL Group
Chairman of Syngenta
Siegfried Luther
Chairman of the Board of RTL Group
Hartmut Ostrowski
Chairman of the Executive Board
Chief Executive Officer, Bertelsmann AG
Thomas Rabe
Member of the Bertelsmann AG Executive Board
Chief Financial Officer
Head of the Corporate Centre, Bertelsmann AG
**subject to AGM approval
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
Gerhard Zeiler
Chief Executive Officer
Member of the Bertelsmann AG Executive Board
Alain Berwick
Chief Executive Officer, RTL Radio and Télé Letzebuerg
Tony Cohen
Chief Executive Officer, FremantleMedia
Claire Davenport
Executive Vice President Corporate Strategy/Business Synergies
Vincent de Dorlodot
General Counsel
Philippe Delusinne
Chief Executive Officer, TVi S.A.
Axel Duroux
Chief Executive Officer, RTL Radio (France)
Dirk Gerkens
Chief Executive Officer, RTL Klub
Bert Habets
Chief Executive Officer, RTL Nederland
Elmar Heggen
Chief Financial Officer and Head of the Corporate Centre
Oliver Herrgesell
Executive Vice President Communications and Marketing
Christoph Mainusch
Chief Executive Officer, RTL Televizija
Romain Mannelli
Executive Vice President Corporate HR

Anke Schäferkordt
Chief Executive Officer, RTL Television
Chief Executive Officer, Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland
Nicolas de Tavernost
Président du Directoire, M6
Andreas Walker
Executive Vice President Regional Operations
Gert Zimmer
Chief Executive Officer, RTL Radio Deutschland
Eduardo Zulueta
Managing Director, MABUAT (Spain)
CORPORATE CENTRE MANAGEMENT
Gerhard Zeiler
Chief Executive Officer
Member of the Bertelsmann AG Executive Board
Elmar Heggen
Chief Financial Officer and Head of the Corporate Centre
Michael Beisheim
Senior Vice President Group Tax
Jean-Marie Bourhis
Deputy CFO and Executive Vice President Finance
Andrew Buckhurst
Senior Vice President Investor Relations
Claire Davenport
Executive Vice President Corporate Strategy/Business Synergies
Vincent de Dorlodot
General Counsel
Alexander Glatz
Senior Vice President Controlling and Investments
Oliver Herrgesell
Executive Vice President Communications and Marketing
Romain Mannelli
Executive Vice President Corporate HR
François Masquelier
Senior Vice President Treasury & Corporate Finance
Ursula Schmidt
Senior Vice President Internal Audit
Pierre Wagner
Chief Information Officer
Andreas Walker
Executive Vice President Regional Operations
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