Mirko Wollrab to head the communications division at HSH Nordbank

Hamburg/Kiel, May 29, 2013 - Effective 1 August 2013, Mirko Wollrab (43) is to take over as Head of the Communications division at HSH Nordbank. This includes the Bank’s media and public relations, internal communications and marketing activities. In this position he will report directly to the Chairman of the Management Board Constantin von Oesterreich.

“In Mirko Wollrab we have gained an experienced and expert communicator for our Bank. Mr. Wollrab is able to draw on a very good network in the corporate sector, the financial industry and the opinion-forming media. I am looking forward to working together with him,” said Constantin von Oesterreich.

As a long-standing partner of the strategic communications consultant CNC, Mr. Wollrab’s last position was as Head of the Frankfurt branch. Prior to that he worked as a business journalist inside and outside Germany for ten years, including spell as head correspondent at the Reuters new agency, for which he reported on the financial sector in Germany.

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