DATAGROUP SE reported a change in the Supervisory Board. Klaus Hardy Muhleck has resigned from office prematurely for professional reasons. Thus, Stuttgart-based IT entrepreneur Dr. Helmut Mahler was appointed to the Supervisory Board by court order with effect from December 7, 2016. Dr.-Ing. Helmut Mahler will fill the vacant position in the Supervisory Board of DATAGROUP by court order. Following his doctorate at the Institute for Information Processing Technology at the University of Karlsruhe, Mahler initially worked at the IBM research laboratory in Zurich before he joined the Daimler Group. He held various management positions in IT management at Daimler, most recently as Vice President and CIO Daimler Trucks. Since 2014, Mahler has been managing partner of IT security specialist Code White GmbH.