Mr Albrecht has been a member of the Board of Directors since July 2002 and was appointed Co-Chairman in December 2003. He is president and CEO of Modern Times Group MTG AB, a publicly listed television and media group based in Sweden. An affiliate of MTG is one of CTC Media’s principal stockholders. He joined MTG in 1997 and has served as its president and CEO since August 2000. Prior to joining MTG, Mr Albrecht worked for Daimler-Benz and for the CLT media group in Luxembourg, where he had responsibility for SuperRTL and CLT’s Digital-TV project, as well as for all television activities and development in Germany and Eastern Europe. Mr Albrecht also serves as a director of Nordic Betting Ltd, an online gambling company registered in Malta, and EM.TV, a German listed company. Mr Albrecht graduated with a Doctorate in Law from the University of Bochum in Germany. |