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Andreas R. Klein is the Chairman of the Board of Management of Splendid Medien AG and is responsible for the areas of licenses and strategy. In 1980, he joined the company founded by his father Albert E. Klein in 1974 and developed its home entertainment and post production divisions. Following the transformation of the Splendid Group into Splendid Medien AG, Klein was appointed as the company's Chairman of the Board of Management in June 1999. Andreas R. Klein has been a producer and co-producer on a number of films, including "Traffic", the four-time Oscar-winning thriller from Steven Soderbergh starring Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones and, with Meg Ryan, "Desert Saints" starring Kiefer Sutherland. He also acted as executive producer on the international hit "Agent Cody Banks" and its sequel "Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London" and on "The Piano Player" starring Christopher Lambert and "In Enemy Hands" with Til Schweiger. |
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Alexander Welzhofer has been a member of the managing board, in charge of marketing and distribution, of Splendid Medien AG since February 2001. Welzhofer is also managing director of WVG Medien GmbH in Hamburg and Kids for Kids GmbH, Hamburg. From 1993 to 1997, Alexander Welzhofer headed PolyGram Video Deutschland and played a major role in setting up PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. In 1988, he set up Richard Branson's film holding M.C.E.G Virgin Vision (later renamed VVL) in the German-speaking countries, and headed the company until it was taken over by PolyGram in 1993. Before that, Welzhofer worked for two years as assistant to the management of HVW Focus Film. His career in the film and video business began in 1983, when he introduced telemarketing to the German video business. |
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Michael Gawenda has been a member of the managing board since July, 2006. He is in charge for Finance and Investor Relations. Michael Gawenda worked from 2001 at the GEA Group in Bochum. There he was first responsible for the central department Mergers & Acquisitions before he held the post of business managing director at GEA WTT GmbH, Nobitz. After receiving a degree in economics from the Ruhr University in Bochum, Michael Gawenda's earlier career took him to Ruhrgas AG in Essen, and Vaillant GmbH in Remscheid. In each of these companies Michael Gawenda held executive positions in the area of controlling/mergers & acquisitions. |
Michael Gawenda |
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