Tamedia Board of Directors proposes Martin Bachem as new member

The Tamedia Board of Directors is proposing 51-year-old business expert Martin Bachem as a new member. Bachem is a member of the founding family of Winterthur-based Ziegler Druck- und Verlags-AG, the publisher of the regional newspaper *Der Landbote*.

With a doctorate in economics, he has been Chairman of the Ziegler-Druck Board of Directors since 1995 and a member since 1985. In his main profession, he held management positions at UBS for many years, according to a press release issued on Wednesday. Since 2007, he has been active as a freelance consultant in the financial sector and in journalism.
The new member of the Board of Directors will be elected on May 11, 2010. With the election of Martin Bachem, the media company Tamedia wants to rejuvenate its Board of Directors "in the sense of forward-looking succession planning", according to the press release.

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