DGAP-News: Gigaset AG nominates Susan Klößand Rudi Lamprecht for Supervisory Board

DGAP-News: Gigaset AG / Key word(s): Change of Personnel
Gigaset AG nominates Susan Klößand Rudi Lamprecht for Supervisory
Board

13.04.2011 / 09:09

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Partner in a leading management consultancy and a former Siemens board
member to stand for election at the AGM

Munich, April 13, 2011 – The Supervisory Board and the Executive Board of
Gigaset AG have nominated Susan Klöß, a leading management consulting
partner and former Siemens board member, Rudi Lamprecht as future members
of the board. As a replacement member Barbara M. Worked, Chief Operating
Officer of investment bank Viscardi AG, is proposed. Susanne Klößis an
internationally respected, top manager with excellent knowledge of the
capital market. Lamprecht, an eminent expert on the core investment,
Gigaset Communications GmbH, offers many years of experience in
telecommunications and information technology industry itself. As a member
of the Central Board of Siemens AG, he worked on the former Siemens Home
and Office Communication Devices GmbH&Co. KG (SHC), from which Gigaset
Communications emerged.

–With Susan Klößand Rudi Lamprecht, we have found two highly competent
individuals–, says the Gigaset AG Supervisory Board chairman, Dr. Dr. Peter
Löw. –Klößcombines outstanding management consultancy with in-depth
capital market knowledge and Lamprecht is absolutely familiar with the
peculiarities of the telecommunications industry. Both will sustainably
strengthen Gigaset AG. –Lamprecht and Klößare put forward as candidates at
the AGM to replace the current Supervisory Board members Dr. Rudolf
butterflies and Prince Hubertus zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, who will no longer
stand for election. The other members of the current Supervisory Board, Dr.
Dr. Peter Löw, Prof. Dr. Michael Judis, David Hersh and Bernhard Riedel
will stand again.

The business graduate, Klößis an internationally renowned expert in the
financial services industry. For many years she was a managing partner of
one of the world–s leading consultancies, responsible for the capital
market area and significantly advanced the exchange industry–s
transformation to international electronic trading. She also accompanied
many international banks and companies in the financial sector in their
change processes, designed and implemented strategies, helping them to
grow. Her customers included, among others, the stock exchanges in China,
Malaysia, Europe and USA, top names in European and USA investment banking,
as well as renowned financial service companies in emerging markets (Latin
America and Russia).

The computer technology graduate, Lamprecht has held numerous high-level
management positions in the information technology industry (ICT) –
including Hewlett Packard and Siemens Nixdorf. As Executive Vice President
at Siemens AG, he was responsible for Information and Communication
Products until 2004 and, as a member of the Central Committee until 2008,
headed up the areas SHC, BSH Bosch and Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH (Home
Appliances), Fujitsu Siemens Computers Osram and the economic regions
Africa, the Middle and Far East and the GU countries. Lamprecht is also on
the supervisory boards of several IT companies.

The Supervisory Board and the Executive Board of Gigaset AG, also nominate
the lawyer, Barbara M. Thätig as a substitute member. Thätig is on the
Board of the investment bank, Viscardi AG, as Chief Operating Officer /
General Counsel. In more than 10 years at Viscardi AG Thätig has
successfully managed numerous national and international public offerings
and capital market transactions. Ms. Thätig is a renowned specialist in the
field of capital market law.

Gigaset AG, Munich, is a worldwide operating company focusing on
telecommunication and accessories. Gigaset AG is the parent company of the
Gigaset Group, the leading producer of cordless phones worldwide and the
market leader in Europe for DECT phones.

The Gigaset AG shares are traded in the TecDAX of the Frankfurt Stock
Exchange. Symbol: AQU, ISIN: DE0005156004.

Further information is available under www.gigaset.ag

Contact:
Gigaset AG
Kerstin Diebenbusch
Investor Relations
Tel.: +49 (0)89 444456-937
E-Mail: info@gigaset.com

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Language: English
Company: Gigaset AG
Hofmannstraße 61
81379 München
Deutschland
Phone: +49 89/255500-0
Fax: +49 89/255500-200
E-mail: klaus.franke@gigaset.com
Internet: www.gigaset.com
ISIN: DE0005156004
WKN: 515600
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard);
Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, München,
Stuttgart

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