New CEO Named for ProSiebenSat.1

COLOGNE, December 10:
Thomas Ebeling, the former head of pharmaceutical company Novartis Consumer Health, will take
over as CEO of ProSiebenSat.1, replacing Guillaume de Posch, who is stepping down
at the end of the year.

The
group's CFO, Axel Salzmann, will act as provisional chief executive until
Ebeling takes up his new post on March 1. Ebeling has served in executive roles
at companies such as Pepsi-Cola Germany, where he was general manager, and
Novartis, where, as CEO for seven years, he oversaw a doubling of corporate
revenue from $11 billion to $22.6 billion.

—By
Kristin Brzoznowski