DGAP-News: ecotel communication ag / Key word(s): Change of Personnel 30.04.2014 / 10:47 --------------------------------------------------------------------- - After the appointment of Supervisory Board Chairman Johannes Borgmann to the Management Board, Dr. Norbert Bensel will take over as Chairman of the Supervisory Board Düsseldorf, 30 April 2014 Effective 1 May 2014 the Supervisory Board has appointed the current Supervisory Board Chairman Johannes Borgmann to the Management Board of ecotel communication ag. Mr. Borgmann has been a member of the Supervisory Board since June 2002. He became Chairman of the Supervisory Board on 18 December 2007. Mr. Borgmann has resigned from the Supervisory Board effective 30 April 2014. Peter Zils, Chairman of the Board: "On behalf of the Management Board and Supervisory Board we thank Mr. Borgmann expressly for his unfailing solution-oriented and successful work on the Supervisory Board of ecotel communication ag. We are convinced that Mr. Borgmann, with his international management experience and his expertise, will play a substantial role in helping the company to achieve its future goals." Mr. Borgmann's appointment to the Management Board will also result in changes to the company's Supervisory Board. Dr. Norbert Bensel (member of the ecotel Supervisory Board since 2010 and Chairman of the Nominating/Personnel Committee) was elected as the new Supervisory Board Chairman as of 1 May 2014. It is planned to restore the Supervisory Board to the full six members at the regular shareholder's meeting on 25 July 2014. Within the framework of the general meeting the company will recommend the shareholder Dr. Barbara Bludau for election as the new member of the Supervisory Board. Dr. Bludau, a legal practitioner and scientific manager, was Secretary General of the Max Planck Society for many years. Since 2011 she has worked as an attorney (Of Counsel) with the commercial and tax law firm P+P Pöllath und Partners mbB in Munich. About ecotel communication ag: Listed in the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, ecotel communication ag is a telecommunications company with activities in three business sectors throughout Germany. In the core segment of »Business Solutions« ecotel provides about 18,000 business customers with an IT/Telecom product portfolio consisting of voice, data and mobile communications solutions. This includes nationwide available and convergent bundled products, broadband data access on the basis of xDSL and Ethernet technologies, scalable networking of corporate locations (VPNs) as well as housing and hosting services. In the second segment, »Wholesale Solutions«, the ecotel group markets preliminary service products to other telecommunications companies. At the same time, the company achieves high traffic volumes in this segment, enhancing added value for the core segment of »Business Solutions«. In addition to the international wholesale voice activities of ecotel, mvneco GmbH is also included in this segment. The »New Business« segment covers new, fast-growing business segments and niches of independently operating subsidiaries. In addition to easybell GmbH, which is aligned to private customer business, nacamar GmbH, which now focuses exclusively on new media activities, is part of this independent business unit. Founded in 1998, the corporate group, with its main office in Düsseldorf, currently has about 200 employees, including subsidiaries and holdings. Note: This publication is not an offer for the sale nor an invitation for the purchase or sub-scription of securities. This publication is not a securities brochure. This publication and the information contained therein are not intended for direct or indirect dissemination to or within the United States of America, Canada, Australia or Japan. PR office: Business and Financial Media Annette Drescher (Assistant to the Managing Director) Phone: 0211-55 007-740 Fax: 0211-55 007 5 740 E-mail: presse@ecotel.de Business media Bernadette Loosen-Flanz (PR) Phone: 0211-55 007-316 Fax: 0211-55 007 5 316 E-mail: presse@ecotel.de For more information, please visit us on the web at www.ecotel.de End of Corporate News --------------------------------------------------------------------- 30.04.2014 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. DGAP's Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: ecotel communication ag Prinzenallee 11 40549 Düsseldorf Germany Phone: +49 (0)211 55 00 70 Fax: +49 (0)211 55 00 7 222 E-mail: info@ecotel.de Internet: http://www.ecotel.de ISIN: DE0005854343 WKN: 585434 Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, München, Stuttgart End of News DGAP News-Service --------------------------------------------------------------------- 265709 30.04.2014