Mr Albrecht has been a member of the Board of Directors since July 2002 and was appointed Co-Chairman in December 2003. He is president and CEO of Modern Times Group MTG AB, a publicly listed television and media group based in Sweden. An affiliate of MTG is one of CTC Media�s principal stockholders. He joined MTG in 1997 and has served as its president and CEO since August 2000. Prior to joining MTG, Mr Albrecht worked for Daimler-Benz and for the CLT media group in Luxembourg, where he had responsibility for SuperRTL and CLT�s Digital-TV project, as well as for all television activities and development in Germany and Eastern Europe. Mr Albrecht also serves as a director of Nordic Betting Ltd, an online gambling company registered in Malta, and EM.TV, a German listed company. Mr Albrecht graduated with a Doctorate in Law from the University of Bochum in Germany. |