RTL Group Names New Head of CEE & Asia

LUXEMBOURG: Andreas Fischer has been appointed as RTL Group’s new senior VP of business development and regional operations for CEE and Asia, succeeding Andreas Rudas.

Fischer will take on the new role beginning January 1, 2017, and will report to RTL Group co-CEO Guillaume de Posch. Fischer will oversee the broadcasting operations in Croatia, Hungary and Southeast Asia, and the German radio business, on a daily basis. In this capacity, Fischer will be elected as chairman of the board of directors of RTL Hungary, RTL Croatia, RTL Radio Deutschland and RTL CBS Asia Entertainment Network. He will continue to manage and coordinate RTL Group’s synergy committees and business development activities. In addition, Fischer will become a member of the RTL Group operations management committee. He began his career at RTL Group in 2000.

Rudas will continue to serve RTL Group as a consultant with a focus on RTL Hungary starting January 1, 2017. He will keep his seat on the board of RTL Hungary and will be elected as vice chairman of the board.

Anke Schäferkordt and de Posch, co-CEOs of RTL Group, stated, “On behalf of RTL Group, we would like to wholeheartedly thank Andreas Rudas for his service and dedication to our Group. As chairman of the board of RTL Hungary—and for a few months in 2015 as interim CEO—he was decisive to steer the company through the difficult times that it has been facing in recent years. We are happy that we were able to secure Andreas Rudas’s expertise as he will continue to work as a consultant to the Group.

“We are very pleased that we have found a successor for Andreas Rudas from within RTL Group. In 16 years in different roles at RTL Group, Andreas Fischer gained detailed and extensive knowledge of the markets, our company and our strategy. With this vast experience, he is the perfect fit to continue the work that was started by Andreas Rudas in Asia and continue our success story in Central and Eastern Europe, and for German radio. We wish him all the best for his new role.”