Hochtief AG has appointed Mike Pinkney to its management team as Head of Capital Markets Strategy. He will be working with the existing Investor Relations team to further improve communications effort with investors and analysts. He will also be providing strategic input for the company's management on the group's future development.

Mike Pinkney has more than 20 years' experience working for global investment banks as an equity analyst most recently at Citigroup as a Director of Equity Research covering the European construction & infrastructure sectors and serving international institutional investors in the UK, the US and Europe. The company has also appointed a new head of Investor Relations, Claudia Nickolaus, who will report to Mike Pinkney. He was until recently Director of Investor Relations at Merck KGaA.

She has more than 10 years' experience in Investor Relations, as head of Investor Relations at the MDAX listed Klockner & Co SE, as an Investor Relations officer for both DAX and MDAX listed companies and as a corporate advisor. Following an interim period in which he had overall responsibility for Investor Relations in additional to his controlling functions, Dr. Lars Petzold will now hand over his Investor Relations responsibility to Mike Pinkney.