PRESS RELEASE: WILEX AG: Professor Olaf G. Wilhelm leaves the Executive Management Board on 31 March 2014, Dr Jan …

PRESS RELEASE: WILEX AG: Professor Olaf G. Wilhelm leaves the Executive Management Board on 31 March 2014, Dr Jan Schmidt-Brand will lead the Company

DGAP-News: WILEX AG / Key word(s): Change of Personnel WILEX AG: Professor Olaf G. Wilhelm leaves the Executive Management Board on 31 March 2014, Dr Jan Schmidt-Brand will lead the Company

24.02.2014 / 21:50

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PRESS RELEASE

Professor Olaf G. Wilhelm leaves the Executive Management Board on 31 March 2014, Dr Jan Schmidt-Brand will lead the Company

Munich, Germany, 24 February 2014. WILEX AG (ISIN DE0006614720/ WL6 / FSE) today announced that Professor Olaf G. Wilhelm will step down as Chairman of the Executive Management Board when his director's contract expires on 31 March 2014.

As a co-founder of the company (1997) and Chief Executive Officer of WILEX AG since 2001, Professor Wilhelm will leave the Company in view of the future direction of the company and the necessary adjustments by mutual consent with the Supervisory Board and maintains a good relationship with his colleagues. The Supervisory Board of WILEX AG thanks Professor Wilhelm for his many years of service, his entrepreneurship and his great dedication to WILEX.

Dr Jan Schmidt-Brand, who has been the company's Chief Financial Officer since 2012, will lead the Executive Management Board of WILEX AG effective 1 April 2014. Going forward, he will hold both posts and continue to serve as Managing Director of Heidelberg Pharma GmbH. Dr Paul Bevan will remain responsible for the Group's R&D activities and make himself available as the main point of contract for licencing talks in connection with WILEX' projects.

These decisions also reflect the re-positioning of WILEX. WILEX will focus on the ADC technology and push the commercialisation of the clinical development projects with a team of approximately 50 employees with emphasis in Ladenburg.

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