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Moneybookers Strengthens Leadership to Support Growth Drive
LONDON, February 5 /PRNewswire/ -- - Martin Ott Leaves Jamster for One of Europe's Largest Online Payment Providers Moneybookers, one of Europe's largest online payment systems, is today announcing the appointment of Martin Ott as Managing Director. The company, which provides domestic payment options in more than 35 countries and customer service in 12 languages, has made the strategic hire to support its aggressive targets for growth within the e-commerce industry and the development of its local services. Ott will be working alongside Dr. Nikolai Riesenkampff, who has been managing the company since May 2005. In his new position Ott will be responsible for e-commerce, marketing, product and service operations. Previously, Ott played a pivotal role as COO at Jamster / Jamba (a News Corp./ Verisign company), in growing the company to the leading international provider of digital entertainment which offers a variety of content services for mobile phones. In his role at Jamster, Ott developed and led the worldwide country operations in almost 40 countries as well as the marketing, production, content and licensing divisions. Ott studied business administration at the WHU - Beisheim School of Management in Koblenz, Germany, as well as in Tokyo and Moscow. Before his role at Jamba, Ott was CEO for Tokyo based web portal Eken K.K. "With the appointment of Martin Ott we have won a Managing Director with proven management abilities", comments Dr. Thomas Middelhoff, Chairman of the Board at Moneybookers. "We're very much looking forward to working together for years to come." Ott will be responsible for further growing the e-commerce business, making its payment systems even more secure and more easy to use for Moneybookers' clients as well as driving innovation to make Moneybookers the leading provider for internet transactions worldwide. Over 4 million customers already have online accounts with Moneybookers and this number is growing fast. Every day, Moneybookers welcomes more than 4,000 costumers as new owners of its electronic wallet, which provides convenience and enhanced security for online shopping, real-time payments and transactions. Moneybookers achieved record growth 2007, primarily driven by new e-commerce merchant integrations. As executive director of the e-commerce business unit, it will also be Ott's objective to win additional global e-commerce brands, as well as smaller e-tailers, as clients. Dr. Nikolai Riesenkampff, Managing Director at Moneybookers, welcomed his new partner: "With Martin Ott we have won an experienced executive with a background in distribution and marketing. Jointly we will develop our activities in the e-commerce industry and make Moneybookers one of the biggest worldwide names in secure online payments. It is great to have him on the Board." About Moneybookers Moneybookers Ltd. (http://www.moneybookers.com) is one of Europe's largest online payment systems offering domestic payment options in more than 35 countries and customer service in 12 languages. With over 4 million account holders, Moneybookers is one of the largest e-wallets worldwide. Moneybookers enables any business or consumer to securely and cost-effectively send and receive payments online, simply by using an email address. In 2007, more than 7,000 merchants used Moneybookers' gateway product, among them global e-commerce brands such as Skype, Foto.com, and QXL ricardo. Dr. Thomas Middelhoff serves as the Chairman of the Board. Moneybookers was founded in 2001 in London and is regulated by the Financial Services Authority of the United Kingdom (FSA).






