Roland Nicklaus to step down from the Executive Board of Smartbroker Holding AG 

Berlin, 29 January 2024

Roland Nicklaus, Chief Financial Officer of Smartbroker Holding AG (SBH), has informed the Company's Supervisory Board that he will not be available to renew his employment contract, and will step down from the Executive Board upon expiry of his current contract as of 31 March 2024.

Andre Kolbinger, founder and CEO of SBH: "We would like to thank Roland Nicklaus for more than fifteen years of close and trusting cooperation and wish him all the best for the future. We are delighted that Roland will remain associated with our company in the future, both as shareholder as well as member of the Supervisory Board of our subsidiary Smartbroker AG. In addition, he is available on an interim basis in an advisory capacity."

The Supervisory Board will imminently start the succession planning. As of April 2024, Andre Kolbinger will take temporary responsibility for the finance function.

 

About the Smartbroker Group:

Through its Transaction division, the Smartbroker Group operates SMARTBROKER+ – a next-generation broker that is the only provider in Germany to combine the extensive product range of classic brokers with the extremely favourable pricing conditions of neo brokers. The portfolio also includes the digital fund broker FondsDISCOUNT.de. At the same time, via its Media division, the Group operates four high-reach digital media assets dedicated to bringing capital markets news and information to retail investors (wallstreet-online.de, boersenNews.de, FinanzNachrichten.de and ARIVA.de). With several hundred million monthly page views, the group is by far the largest publisher-independent financial portal operator in the German-speaking world and maintains the largest financial community.