08/30/2013

QSC AG augments Management Board lineup

Stefan Freyer and Henning Reinecke appointed to Management Board

Cologne, August 30, 2013 - At its meeting yesterday, the Supervisory Board of Cologne-based QSC AG appointed Stefan Freyer and Henning Reinecke to the Management Board of QSC AG effective September 1, 2013. Both are former management board members of INFO AG, which was merged with QSC AG on August 6, 2013.

Stefan Freyer (46) had been responsible for Outsourcing, Consulting, Infrastructure and Innovation on the management board of INFO AG since November 2007. Freyer, who holds a post-graduate degree in Information Technology with a concentration on Economics, had previously headed up the Projects and Applications Management operations there. As a member of the QSC AG Management Board, he will be responsible for Operations, ICT Solutions business and IT Consulting, and will drive the integration of IT and TC services at the technology level.

Henning Reinecke (47) had been on the management board of INFO AG since 2012, where he was responsible for Sales & Marketing. Before that, he had been in charge of Consulting and Outsourcing Sales in North Germany. With his educational background in Economics, he had previously gathered 16 years of both national and international project, sales and leadership experience at international IT services provider CSC. On the QSC AG Management Board, Reinecke will be responsible for Sales & Marketing as well as for developing the company's ICT portfolio driven by market requirements.

Arnold Stender (48) is a former member of the Management Board of QSC AG; as managing director of tengo GmbH, a QSC AG company, he will be devoting his full energies toward evolving the innovative QSC-tengo product family and shaping its Cloud service into a core product of the new QSC AG.

The new Management Board of QSC AG thus comprises Jürgen Hermann, Chief Executive Officer, Barbara Stolz, Chief Financial Officer and additionally responsible for Human Resources, Information Technology and Corporate Purchasing, Stefan Freyer and Henning Reinecke.

"Appropriately represented on this Management Board team is a combination of IT and TC competences, solutions and product business. This will assure the required stability and continuity. At the same time, the team will be drawing upon its wealth of expertise to develop innovative ICT services and offer one-stop shopping for them," is the way Supervisory Board Chairman Dr. Bernd Schlobohm explains the Board's move.

"In recent years, I've gotten to know and value Stefan Freyer and Henning Reinecke as extremely competent, enthusiastic and committed colleagues, and I am pleased that we will now be able to continue to collaborate intensively," notes Jürgen Hermann in commenting on the new management team at QSC AG.

QSC: ICT solutions for small and mid-size enterprises
QSC AG offers small and mid-size enterprises one-stop shopping for an extensive range of ICT services: from telephony, data transfer, Housing and Hosting right through to IT Outsourcing and IT Consulting. As an SAP Gold Partner and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, QSC AG additionally possesses special expertise in the field of SAP and Microsoft implementation. Cloud services developed in house for a wide range of applications round out the portfolio. With its own cutting-edge network infrastructure, as well as TÜV- and ISO-certified data centers in Germany, QSC numbers among the leading SME providers of ICT services in Germany. The company offers both custom-tailored solutions for individual ICT needs as well as a modular product portfolio for smaller business customers and marketing partners. QSC employs a workforce of some 1,600 people and is included in the TecDAX index.

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