Jörg Trouvain succeeds Hakan Öktem, who is to join the company’s Board of Directors in July 2009. Öktem will also be performing an advisory role for other subsidiaries of TOMORROW FOCUS AG, including the planned new financial portal currently being developed by Findocs GmbH in Cologne, Germany.
Jörg Trouvain is currently Senior Vice President of European Publishing at Activision Blizzard, the world’s largest video games manufacturer. His previous positions include Managing Director of Electronic Arts Germany.
Stefan Winners, CEO of TOMORROW FOCUS AG and Chairman of HolidayCheck AG’s Board of Directors, commented on the appointment:
“We are delighted that we have been able to attract someone as experienced and highly qualified as Jörg Trouvain to the role of CEO for this high-growth company. With Friedrich von Scanzoni and Jörg, we now have the ideal team to develop HolidayCheck into a major international player.”
I am also grateful to Hakan Öktem for his outstanding work as CEO of HolidayCheck AG. Hakan has worked with great commitment to develop HolidayCheck into the market leader in the German-speaking countries. I look forward to continuing to work with him in his new capacity.”
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About HolidayCheck AG:
HolidayCheck AG operates the leading free, independent German-language opinion portal for travel and holidays on the internet. With 123 million page impressions per month, according to information for October 2008 from IVW (the German Audit Bureau of Circulations), HolidayCheck is one of the leading German-language travel portals.
The CEOs of HolidayCheck AG are Hakan Öktem and Friedrich von Scanzoni. TOMORROW FOCUS AG is the majority shareholder in HolidayCheck AG, with an 80 percent interest in the company.
About TOMORROW FOCUS AG
TOMORROW FOCUS AG (ISIN DE0005495329), Munich, Germany, is one of the leading exchange-listed internet groups in Germany. It operates the three divisions of Portal, E-Commerce and Technologies.
The company's own publishing platforms, FOCUS Online, AMICA Online, CINEMA Online, FITFORFUN Online, MAX Online and TV SPIELFILM Online, the physician rating portal jameda and premium website marketing operations are assigned to the Portal division.
The E-Commerce division comprises the HolidayCheck hotel rating and holiday booking portal, the premium online dating portal ElitePartner and Germany's leading men's lifestyle magazine, Playboy.
In the Technologies division, TOMORROW FOCUS Technologies GmbH and CELLULAR GmbH provide a comprehensive range of IT services for stationary and mobile internet.
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