INTERSHOP Communications Aktiengesellschaft announces a change in the Management Board. Long-serving Management Board Chairman, CEO Dr. Jochen Wiechen will leave the company at his own request as planned when his contract expires at the end of August 2021. Dr. Jochen Wiechen has been a member of the company's management board since 1 August 2013, initially serving as Chief Technical Officer and from September 1, 2015 as chairman of the board. In accordance with the company's long-term succession plan, Board member Markus Klahn, who has served on the Board since April 2018 and is responsible for Service, Sales and Marketing, will continue to lead the company as sole Board member. He will take over as chairman of the Board.