Jan Oetjen and Martin Witt appointed as additional members of United Internet’s Management Board
Montabaur, September 25, 2014. The Supervisory Board of United Internet AG yesterday appointed Jan Oetjen and Martin Witt to the company’s Management Board, which currently comprises three members.
In his new position, Mr. Oetjen will be responsible for the Portal and Online Advertising business of United Internet AG. His current operating role as CEO of WEB.DE & GMX Mail & Media SE will not be affected. The same applies to Mr. Witt, who will be responsible for the Access business of United Internet AG and at the same time remain CEO of 1&1 Telecommunication AG. WEB.DE & GMX Mail & Media SE, as well as 1&1 Telecommunication AG, are subsidiaries of United Internet AG.
As of October 1, 2014, the Management Board of United Internet AG will thus comprise five members:
Ralph Dommermuth Chief Executive Officer
Robert Hoffmann Member of the Management Board for Business Applications, Deputy CEO
Jan Oetjen Member of the Management Board for Consumer Applications
Martin Witt Member of the Management Board for Access
Norbert Lang Chief Financial Officer
Born in 1972, Jan Oetjen joined the United Internet Group in October 2008 and has since been responsible for the Mail and Portal businesses of the brands WEB.DE and GMX. Under his leadership, United Internet acquired the portal mail.com in 2010. He also headed the Group’s launch of De-Mail services in 2013 as well as the security initiative “E-Mail made in Germany” in cooperation with Deutsche Telekom.
Martin Witt, born in 1955, joined the Management Board of 1&1 Telecommunication AG on April 1, 2014. He was previously a member of the Management Board with responsibility for the Access business at 1&1 Internet AG after heading the Access Product Management division from July 2009 to June 2011.
In 2013, Martin Witt was elected to the Executive Committee of the German Association of Telecommunications and Value-Added Service Providers (Verband der Anbieter von Telekommunikations- und Mehrwertdiensten e. V. - VATM) and is actively engaged in the NGA Forum of Germany’s Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (Bundesnetzagentur) as well as the German government’s IT Summit.