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Executive Board

The IDS Scheer AG Executive Board consists of four members with Peter Gérard as the CEO.

A portrait and a brief listing of areas of responsibility of each member are listed below:

Peter Gérard

CEO

Area of responsibility: In addition to his function as CEO, he is responsible for the regions Americas and Asia Pacific. Corporate functions as human resources, corporate development. Legal services and marketing also report directly to Peter Gérard.

Short biography: Since September 1, 2008, Peter Gérard, born in 1947, is Chairman of the Board of IDS Scheer. He assumed several management positions within IBM in the U.S., Canada, Japan and Paris. In 1966, Peter Gérard started his professional career as a systems engineer with IBM Germany. Since 1989 he worked in leading management positions within Deutsche Bank AG before being appointed in 1996 as a Member of the Divisional Board of the Group Service Division. 1999 he was named Member of the Executive Board of Mannesmann AG in Duesseldorf. In 2000, he started as a Member of the Executive Board of Karstadt Quelle AG and at the same time he was appointed as the CEO of Karstadt Quelle New Media AG.

Other mandates*:

DIH Equity GmbH, Frankfurt

Dr. Wolfram Jost

Executive Board Member responsible for products

Area of responsibility: Product strategy, research and development, global product services

Short biography: Dr. Wolfram Jost, born in 1962, has been a member of the Executive Board since October 2000. He is responsible for the ARIS product line worldwide. He holds a doctorate in business administration and joined IDS Scheer in 1992 to manage ARIS product development and strategy. He was named managing director in 1994.

Serves on no additional boards*.

Dr. Dirk Oevermann

Executive Board Member with responsibility for regions

Area of responsibility: Regions DACH and EMEA

Short biography: Dr. Dirk Oevermann, born in 1964, has been a member of the Executive Board of IDS Scheer AG since August 2006. He is responsible for the regions DACH and EMEA. He holds a doctorate in business administration and since 1996 has held various management positions at well-known software companies in the banking and insurance industry. He joined IDS Scheer in 2003 as the manager of the consulting unit for banking. In 2005 he was named a managing director of IDS Scheer Germany, where he was responsible for consulting business in Germany. From 2006 to 2008 he was leading the international consulting business.

Serves on no additional boards*.

Jörg Vandreier

CFO

Area of responsibility: Corporate Finance, Investor Relations and Internal IT

Short biography: Business graduate Jörg Vandreier, born in 1963, has been Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of IDS Scheer AG since January 2008. He is assuming managerial responsibility for corporate finance, investor relations and internal IT. He started his professional career in 1988 as controller at Volkswagen's subsidiary VW-Gedas GmbH. He has held various management positions at different US groups before being appointed to the Management Board of SAP Systems Integration AG in 2000. In this function he was in charge of the Finance, Controlling, Legal, Mergers & Acquisitions, Human Resources, Training, Facilities, Purchasing, IT and Investor Relations divisions. From 2003 to 2007, Mr. Vandreier held the position of Chief Financial Officer at itelligence AG.

Serves on no additional boards*.

* Membership in supervisory boards and other comparable domestics and foreign executive committees of business enterprises

as of: September 30, 2008