ProSiebenSat. joins forces with Mato Peric to found Epic Companies incubator

ProSiebenSat.1 joins forces with Mato Peric to found Epic Companies incubator

Berlin/Munich, February 28, 2013. ProSiebenSat.1 has joined forces with Mato Peric (33) the former global E-Commerce CEO of Rocket Internet, to found a new incubator based in Berlin. Epic Companies will build on a unique combination of resources from the start: substantial seed financing, strong media reach via TV advertising and extensive entrepreneurial expertise. The incubator aims at starting at least five companies per year, with its initial focus being on e-commerce business models in European markets.

Dr. Christian Wegner, responsible for the Digital & Adjacent business within the Executive Board of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group comments: Together with our new partner, Epic Companies, the ProSiebenSat.1 Group has expanded its venture activities by adding a key element: In addition to minority interests through media-for-revenue or media-for-equity investments and strategic majority stakes, we now also participate early on and directly in the value creation of winning internet businesses. Wegner continues: I am delighted that Mato Peric has agreed to join us as CEO. He is an exceptionally experienced entrepreneur with an outstanding global track record.

In addition to founding the new incubator Epic Companies, Peric will further strengthen the overall Internet and venture expertise within the ProSiebenSat.1 Group. Peric will therefore simultaneously assume the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer within the Digital & Adjacent area of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group. In this function, he will actively support and develop the entire digital portfolio of the media Group.

In his previous position, Peric was a member of the senior management team at Rocket Internet, the incubator of the Samwer brothers, and was responsible for the entire e-commerce portfolio worldwide with over 15,000 employees in more than 40 countries. As the interim CEO, he additionally built and led the

operations of two of the largest global portfolio companies: Jabong, the second-largest e-commerce website in India, as well as Zalora, the leading online fashion company in Southeast Asia, where Peric was responsible for over 1,500 employees across 8 countries..

In addition to Peric, the leadership team of Epic Companies is comprised of further experienced company builders: Uli Erxleben (32), Janosch Novak (30), and Adrian Frenzel (29). Erxleben, a long-time consultant at McKinsey, was most recently responsible for the activities of Rocket Internet in the United States as Managing Director and led several US portfolio companies as interim CEO. As the Global Operational CFO of Rocket Internet, Novak strengthened the development of the incubators finance function worldwide and most recently supported the portfolio company Payleven operationally. Novaks prior professional experience included a range of high-profile roles within Deutsche Bank, most recently as Vice President in the global Group Strategy division. In his previous position, Frenzel was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey, where he supported clients in the development and implementation of purchasing, logistics, and production systems as core member of McKinseys global operations practice since 2008.

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