EANS-News: CURANUM AG / Walther Wever appointed management board chairman of CURANUM AG

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Walther Wever appointed management board chairman of CURANUM AG

In its meeting today, the supervisory board of CURANUM AG, Munich, one of the
largest private operators of senior citizen care facilities in Germany, has
appointed Mr. Walther Wever (54) as management board member effective as of
October 1, 2010, and as management board chairman (CEO) of the company.
Following the dismissal of Mr. Bernd Rothe on September 3, 2010, Mr. Wever will
hold this post on an interim basis up to June 30, 2011.
Commenting on the appointment, supervisory board chairman Dr. Dieter Thomae
stated: "We made a well considered decision for this course of action. In Mr.
Wever we have succeeded in gaining an entrepreneurially minded personality
drawing on extensive management experience in the industrial arena. We are
confident that this appointment will mark a major step for the positive future
development of Curanum. The supervisory board will now embark on the search for
an appropriate long-term candidate, without being subject to undue time pressure
in the process."
Walther Wever was born in 1955 in Essen, and studied law and economic science at
the Universities of Freiburg and Delaware, USA. On completing his studies, he
worked for several years as corporate counsel at VTG GmbH, Hamburg, and switched
to the controlling department of VARTA AG in 1987, where he was responsible for
finances in his last post as CFO. Following the sale of the company to Johnson
Controls Inc. Milwaukee (JCI), Walther Wever was successfully active as board
chairman of VARTA Automotive AG from 2002 to 2009. In his new functions at
CURANUM, Mr. Wever will contribute his extensive, in-depth experience in the
successful management and further development of personnel intensive
corporations, and also draw on his network in financial circles in his position
as interim manager. Walther Wever will be mainly responsible for corporate
management and strategy, mergers and acquisitions as well as the investor
relations area. "I look forward to this new task scope that entails operational
as well as strategic challenges," as Wever stated. He went on to add: "I am
optimistic that we will return Curanum AG to the successful course the company
has charted over so many years."
With the appointment of Mr. Walther Wever as CEO, the management board now
consists of three members again, with Ms. Judith Barth active as CFO and Ms.
Sabine Merazzi-Weirich holding the position of COO.
The management board and supervisory board wish Mr. Wever every success and look
forward to fruitful cooperation.

Munich, September 28, 2010

The management board

Further inquiry note:
Bettina Pöschl
Tel. +49(0)89-242065-69
E-Mail: [email protected]
end of announcement euro adhoc
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issuer: CURANUM AG
Maximilianstr. 35c
D-80539 München
phone: +49 (0)89 242065 60
FAX: +49 (0) 89 242065 10
mail: [email protected]
WWW: http://www.curanum.de
sector: Healthcare Providers
ISIN: DE0005240709
indexes: CDAX, Classic All Share, Prime All Share
stockmarkets: regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt, free trade: Berlin,
Hamburg, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, regulated dealing: München
language: English

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