Ad-hoc-Meldung/Ad hoc Release nach § 15 WpHG/pursuant to § 15 of the German Securities Trading Act
Johann Berger leaves the Group following the reorganization of the Corporate and Real Estate Finance business.
Dr. Stefan Schmittmann to be appointed a full member of HypoVereinsbank's Management Board
As previously announced in early July, UniCredit Group will transfer its group-wide commercial real estate finance business to the Corporates Division as a global product factory. With this move, the Management Committee and Board of Directors of UniCredit will follow Johann Berger's recommendation that the establishment of a stand-alone division would not seem advisable given the clearly focused business model for commercial real estate finance.
Johann Berger (46), member of UniCredit's Management Committee responsible for the Commercial Real Estate Finance and member of the HypoVereinsbank's Management Board, will leave the Group at his own request, effective August 31
Subject to the approval of the Supervisory Board of HypoVerereinsbank, and effective in September, Dr. Stefan Schmittmann (49) will be appointed a full member of the HypoVereinsbank's Management Board. He will be responsible for the corporate customer business, including commercial real estate finance.
Dr. Stefan Schmittmann joined Bayerische Vereinsbank AG in 1986 and has held leadership positions in the corporate customer business and in risk management since then. In 2004, he took over the position of Management Board Spokesman of Vereins- und Westbank and played a key formative role in VuW's integration into HypoVereinsbank. After subsequently holding the position of Divisional Board member for Corporate Customers and Professionals, Dr. Schmittmann has been a deputy member of HypoVereinsbank's Management Board since 2006
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Milan, 4 August 2006
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