EXTRADORDINARY GENERAL MEETING ELECTS RUDOLF KEMLER TO THE SUPERVISORY BOARD OF AUSTRIAN POST

KEMLER TO SERVE AS SUPERVISORY BOARD CHAIRMAN AS OF NOVEMBER 1, 2012

The resolution proposed to elect Rudolf Kemler to the Supervisory Board of Austrian Post effective November1, 2012 was approved by today's Extraordinary General Meeting. Rudolf Kemler will replace Markus Beyrer, who is retiring from the Supervisory Board of Austrian Post on October 31, 2012. 

At the constituent meeting of the Supervisory Board following the Extraordinary General Meeting, Rudolf Kemler was elected to serve as Chairman of the Supervisory Board.

RUDOLF KEMLER
The professional career of Rudolf Kemler (born 1956) began at various banks such as Creditanstalt and Girocentrale. From 1984 to 1989, Kemler assumed the position of Managing Director at WBG Betriebswirtschaft Beratungsgesellschaft m.b.H. before joining the senior management team at Nixdorf Computer GmbH. Following the major role played in the fusion with Siemens-Data, Kemler was appointed as Director of Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme GmbH in Vienna in 1990 and then transferred to Group headquarters in Munich in 1992 to serve as Executive Vice President with global responsibility for the "Branch System" business area. In 1995 he returned to Vienna to manage the Computer Systems Division of Siemens Nixdorf for the Region Austria & South East Europe. Between 1998 and 2000, Kemler was the Senior Vice President and CIO at Capital Corporation in Stamford (USA) before being named Chairman of the Board of Stage1.cc Technology Business Incubator AG in Vienna. 
Starting in 2002 Kemler worked as the Chairman of the Management Board of T-Systems Austria on behalf of Deutsche Telekom, and was subsequently appointed the Managing Director of HP Austria in 2008 with operational responsibility for HP Austria. In addition, he heads the Enterprise Business area at HP Austria.

CONTACT
Austrian Post
Ingeborg Gratzer
Head of Press Relations & Internal Communications
Tel.: +43 (0) 57767-24730
ingeborg.gratzer@post.at

Austrian Post
Harald Hagenauer
Head of Investor Relations & Corporate Governance
Tel.: +43 (0) 57767-30400
harald.hagenauer@post.at

Vienna, October 11 2012

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