Ote Ads Regulatory News (OTES)

26 Mar 2009 16:07

HELLENIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS ORGANIZATION S.A.

Announcement

OTE ANNOUNCES NEW BoD MEMBER

Αthens, Μarch 26, 2009 - Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA (ASE: HTO, NYSE: OTE), the Greek full-service telecommunications provider announces that during the meeting of its Board of Directors, which was held today, the member of OTE's BoD, Dr. Karl-Gerhard Eick, resigned. In replacement of the aforementioned resigned member, for the rest of his term of service and under the same capacity, OTE's Board of Directors elected and appointed Mr. Guido Kerkhoff. 

Mr. Guido Kerkhoff, was born in 1967 and holds a degree in Business Administration. He began his career in the Group Accounting Department of VEW AG, where he worked from 1995 through 1996. He then moved on to Bertelsmann AG, where he held the position of Head of Projects and General Corporate Accounting and Controlling. Since April 2002, Mr. Guido Kerkhoff has held various management positions in Deutsche Telekom's Finance department and since mid-2006 he has been the Head of Deutsche Telekom Group Accounting and Controlling. On March 1, 2009, Mr. Kerkhoff was appointed Member of Deutsche Telekom's Board of Management, responsible for South Eastern Europe.

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About OTE

OTE Group is Greece's leading telecommunications organization and one of the pre-eminent players in Southeastern Europe, providing top-quality products and services to its customers.

Apart from serving as a full service telecommunications group in the Greek telecoms market, OTE Group has also expanded during the last decade its geographical footprint throughout South East Europe, acquiring stakes in the incumbent telecommunications companies of Romania and Serbia, and establishing mobile operations in Albania, Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Romania. At present, companies in which OTE Group has an equity interest employ over 30,000 people in six countries, and our portfolio of solutions ranges from fixed and mobile telephony to Internet applications, satellite, maritime communications and consultancy services.

Listed on the Athens Stock Exchange, the company trades under the ticker HTO as well as on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker OTE. In the U.S., OTE's American Depository Receipts (ADR's) represents ½ ordinary share. Additional Information is also available on http://www.ote.gr.

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Contacts:

OTE: Dimitris Tzelepis- Head of Investor Relations 

Tel: +30 210 611 1574, Email: dtzelepis@ote.gr 

Maria Kountouri - Assistant to the Head of Investor Relations

Tel: +30 210 611 5381, Email: mkountouri@ote.gr

Nektarios Papagiannakopoulos - Senior Financial Analyst, Investor Relations

Tel: +30 210 611 7593, Email: npapagiannakopoulos@ote.gr

Christina Hadjigeorgiou - Financial Analyst, Investor Relations

Tel: +30 210 611 1428, Email: cchatzigeo@ote.gr

Dimitris Tsatsanis - Financial Analyst, Investor Relations 

Tel: +30 210 611 6071, Email: dtsatsanis@ote.gr

Daria Kozanoglou - Senior Communications & Regulatory Affairs Officer, 

Investor Relations

Tel: +30 210 611 1121, Email: nkozanoglou@ote.gr 

Eleni Agoglossaki- Communications & Regulatory Affairs Officer, 

Investor Relations

  Tel: +30 210 611 7880, Email: eagoglossak@ote.gr

Eftychia Tourna - Communications & Regulatory Affairs Officer, Investor Relations

Tel: +30 210 611 7236, Email: etourna@ote.gr

Forward-looking statement

Any statements contained in this document that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. The factors that could affect the Company's future financial results are discussed more fully in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2007 filed with the SEC on June 24, 2008. OTE assumes no obligation to update information in this release.