Constantin Medien : New Consulting department sees Simon Trägner switch to Constantin Medien Group

Constantin Medien is set to offer its clients and partners integrated, independent media consulting through a separate Consulting unit from 2017: Simon Trägner - Managing Director of Germany's leading sponsoring agency akzio! through the end of 2016 - will join the Constantin Medien Group as Managing Director of the new department, effective February 1, 2017. Also joining as Managing Director will be Matthias Reichert, currently Director Media Sales Clients at marketer Sport1 Media GmbH. Both will report to Olaf Schröder, COO Sports of Constantin Medien AG.

The Consulting department will bring together the comprehensive expertise of Constantin Medien's Sports Segment and offer media consulting in the fields of sport and entertainment, thus meeting the growing demand from clients for customized solutions and the medialisation of content. The new business unit will be integrated into creative agency LEITMOTIF Creators GmbH.

Olaf Schröder, COO Sports of Constantin Medien AG: 'With our new Consulting unit, we want to offer companies customized and integrated consulting and communication services for their brands. The department will operate autonomously, but will have access to the wide areas of expertise of our sports companies: the editorial capacity of all SPORT1 platforms, the profound production know-how of PLAZAMEDIA, and the creation and content-marketing expertise of LEITMOTIF. Thanks to their many years of strategic and operating experience and their industry knowledge, Simon Trägner and Matthias Reichert are the ideal choice for this task.'

About Simon Trägner
After graduating in sports economics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, and University College Twickenham, London, Simon Trägner (44) began his career in 1999 as project manager at the Frankfurt office of sponsoring agency Focus! Marketing, renamed akzio! gmbh in 2001. Following positions as Consultant and Senior Consultant, he became an Authorized Signatory and Member of the Management of akzio! in 2005, partner in 2007, and Managing Director in 2010. At the end of 2008, Trägner moved to the agency's Munich office to manage and expand the branch together with Thomas Kahl. Following the sale of akzio! gmbh, which had since become Germany's leading sponsoring agency, to the French Lagardère group in 2015, Simon Trägner remained on board as Managing Director through 2016 before taking on new challenges.
About Matthias Reichert
Matthias Reichert (39) studied sports management at Koblenz University of Applied Sciences, Germany. After his first role as Marketing Manager at pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim, he worked from 1998 through 2000 in the business office of football club FSV Mainz 05, then from 2001 through 2004 oversaw the setting up and marketing of the sports department of regional newspaper BIG, and from 2003 through 2004 worked in marketing for NFL Europe. In 2004 he joined the former DSF Deutsches SportFernsehen GmbH (now Sport1 GmbH) as Sales Manager, before becoming Senior Manager Key Accounts from 2007. Later, at the then Constantin Sport Marketing GmbH (now Sport1 Media GmbH), he was Head of Key Accounts, and from 2011 acting as Head of TV and Director Media Sales. Since 2013, Matthias Reichert has been Director Media Sales Clients at SPORT1 MEDIA, where he is responsible for direct client sales.

About the Segment Sports of Constantin Medien AG
The Segment Sports comprises the TV activities of Sport1 GmbH with the free-TV channel SPORT1 and pay-TV channels SPORT1+ and SPORT1 US. The portfolio of Germany's leading 360° multimedia sports platform also includes the online portal SPORT1.de, the SPORT1 mobile apps, social media channels, and the digital sports radio SPORT1.fm. The various offerings under the umbrella brand SPORT1 are marketed by multi-platform marketer Sport1 Media GmbH. Another key company in the group is PLAZAMEDIA GmbH, which offers production services and also includes the creative agency LEITMOTIF Creators GmbH.

About LEITMOTIF Creators GmbH
Vision in Motion - LEITMOTIF Creators is a creative agency for moving content. Its repertoire covers the full spectrum of moving communication, from integrated 360° moving-image campaigns, to serial premium documentary formats, from cross-media content strategies right through to promos, image films, and product videos. LEITMOTIF Creators develops effective and unusual communication ideas for any message and brings them to life with its own in-house and/or postproduction.

Attached are portrait photos of Simon Trägner and Matthias Reichert for free editorial use.

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