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Mr Klatten joined the Board of Directors in June 2006. Mr Klatten has extensive experience in the media industry and is currently chairman of the management board of EM.TV AG, a German publicly traded media and marketing company focused on sports and entertainment. Early in his career, Mr Klatten joined Martin Brinkmann AG in 1977 as senior legal advisor. In 1984, he was appointed to the board of Martin Brinkmann, where he was responsible for marketing and one year later became chairman of that board. In 1988, Mr Klatten moved to become chief executive officer of the television channel Sat. 1. In 1994, he moved to the Spiegel Verlag as management executive in charge of markets and revenue, ultimately also assuming management of Spiegel TV, and in September 2000 he became the chairman of the board of SpiegelNet AG. Mr Klatten studied jurisprudence and began his career practicing law in Hamburg, Germany. | 