The chairman of the Supervisory Board, Mr. Ian Jackson, managing director of The Carlyle Group, has resigned from his office as chairman of the Supervisory Board of KAP Beteiligungs-AG and will from June 5, 2018 no longer be a member of the Supervisory Board. Mr. Christian Schmitz, member of the Supervisory Board of KAP Beteiligungs-AG and managing director of The Carlyle Group, was 08 May 2018 elected as new chairman of the Supervisory Board. The Supervisory Board has in meeting also resolved to propose to the shareholders meeting that the number of supervisory board members is reduced from six to five. It is thus not intended to hold an election for a replacement supervisory board member.