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DGAP-News: Sixt Leasing SE / Key word(s): Change of Personnel Sixt Leasing appoints Dr Felix Frank from AutoScout24 as new Head of Online Business
Pullach, 31 July 2018 - Sixt Leasing SE, market leader in the online sales of new vehicles and specialist in the management and full-service leasing of large fleets, has appointed Dr Felix Frank as new Chief Digital Officer (CDO) and Managing Director Online Retail. Mr Frank will move from AutoScout24 to Sixt Leasing at the end of the year and will be responsible for the online business with the platforms sixt-neuwagen.de and autohaus24.de. As Vice President Customer Product and Marketing at the Scout24 Group, Felix Frank currently heads the operational management of the digital marketplace AutoScout24 as well as the marketing and product strategy for the dealer and manufacturer business. Thomas Spiegelhalter, CEO of Sixt Leasing SE: "We are very pleased to have hired Felix Frank, a proven expert in digital business models and a profound authority on internet automobile sales. He is the ideal cast for the position as head of the online business. I am sure that Mr Frank will make a significant contribution to achieving our ambitious expansion plans in Online Retail. We will also especially benefit from his experience in the internationalisation of the business field, which we will be pushing from 2019." The Online Retail business field became the Sixt Leasing Group's largest business field in the first quarter of 2018. As part of the DRIVE>2021 strategy programme, the company plans to expand its Online Retail contract portfolio to over 110,000 contracts by the end of 2021. This corresponds to an average annual growth rate of around 25 percent. Dr Felix Frank: "Digital automobile sales is currently one of the most exciting industries and will see a lot of innovation and disruption in the coming years. Sixt Leasing is the clear market leader here and, with its proven expertise in vehicle financing and fleet management, is ideally positioned to benefit from this market development. I am very much looking forward to working with the teams to shape further development." Felix Frank has been with the Scout24 Group since 2012 and has more than ten years of professional experience in the fields of e-business, innovation management and pricing. After completing his degree in international computer science, he worked for the Boston Consulting Group for several years. During this time, he received his doctorate in the research areas of technology marketing and customer relationship management. --- About Sixt Leasing: Sixt Leasing SE (WKN: A0DPRE / ISIN: DE000A0DPRE6) based in Pullach near Munich is market leader in online sales of new vehicles as well as specialist in management and full-service leasing of large fleets. With tailor-made solutions, the company enables the longer-term mobility of its private and corporate customers. Private and commercial customers use the online platforms sixt-neuwagen.de and autohaus24.de to lease new vehicles affordably. Corporate customers benefit from the cost-saving leasing of their vehicle fleet and from efficient fleet management. Sixt Leasing SE has been listed in the Regulated Market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Prime Standard) since 7 May 2015. In fiscal year 2017, the Group generated consolidated revenue of EUR 744 million. www.sixt-leasing.com
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| Language: | English |
| Company: | Sixt Leasing SE |
| Zugspitzstraße 1 | |
| 82049 Pullach | |
| Germany | |
| Phone: | +49 (0)89 744 44 - 4518 |
| Fax: | +49 (0)89 744 44 - 8 4518 |
| E-mail: | ir@sixt-leasing.com |
| Internet: | http://ir.sixt-leasing.de |
| ISIN: | DE000A0DPRE6, DE000A2DADR6 |
| WKN: | A0DPRE |
| Listed: | Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange; Luxembourg Stock Exchange |
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