The Supervisory Board of TAKKT AG ("TAKKT") unanimously appointed Maria Zesch as the company's new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). She will assume the position on August 1, 2021, succeeding Felix Zimmermann, who will leave the Management Board on his own request at the end of the Annual General Meeting on May 11, 2021. Currently, Maria Zesch serves as member of the board for B2B & Digitalization at Magenta Telekom, an Austrian internet and mobile operator. She held various management positions within Deutsche Telekom Group since 2008. Prior to that, she worked at the strategy consultancy A.T. Kearney and at the media company ORF. Already in September 2020 TAKKT CEO Felix Zimmermann had announced that he would not renew his current contract to initiate a generation change and thus support the ongoing transformation of the Group. Now that the succession has been arranged, he has asked for his contract to be terminated at the end of the upcoming Annual General Meeting to be able to focus on other tasks. The Supervisory Board has complied with this request. From the end of the Annual General Meeting until Maria Zesch joins the company, TAKKT will be managed by a transition team, which will include Management Board members Claude Tomaszewski and Tobias Flaitz, as well as other members of senior management and representatives of the operating units.