Patricius de Gruyter will join the management board of Francotyp-Postalia Holding AG as at June 1, 2018. From this date on, he will be responsible for all national and international sales and marketing activities at the company. He has been cooperating closely with the management board for nearly a year and is therefore already involved in a number of major ACT projects. This will ensure a smooth transition. After more than five years of successful work as the management board member responsible for sales and marketing, his predecessor Thomas Grethe has decided not to renew his contract when it expires routinely at the end of June and to take on new projects instead. Over the past few years, he has sustainably expanded sales in the core business of franking and inserting both nationally and internationally and helped to significantly advance the company Group's transformation into a dynamic growth company in the management board team led by CEO Rüdiger Andreas Günther. Since 2012, he has been working as an independent business consultant specialising in B2B sales and marketing. Prior to this, he was employed at several renowned companies in the IT, cable network operator and dialogue marketing sectors, including as Director of B2B Sales at Kabel Deutschland AG. He has also worked as Managing Director of the Tectum Group, and as Managing Director of Computacenter AG.