zanox appoints Country Sales Director for Poland

zanox gains performance marketing expert and agency founder, Jakub Maj, for newly-created position

Further expansion of Eastern European business planned for 2011

Berlin, 15.02.2011- zanox, Europe's leading performance advertising network, has assigned Jakub Maj to head its Polish Sales and Account Management Team with immediate effect. 32 year-old Maj, most recently responsible for the Polish market of the international performance advertising network, OMG, will coordinate all sales and service activities in the Axel Springer and PubliGroupe subsidiary's most important Eastern European market.

In his position as Country Sales Director Poland, Jakub Maj will manage the Polish Sales and Account Management Team and will assume responsibility for the staff and market strategy. The focus of his operative sales duties will lie in strengthening the existing business and in generating new customer business on the advertiser, publisher and agency side.

Jakub Maj founded his own online marketing agency "e-Next" as early as 2000, and developed it for several years as its Managing Director. Until his transfer to zanox, he headed the Polish operations for the Europe-wide-operating British affiliate network, OMG. Maj ranks as a renowned online marketing expert with outstanding contacts to international brands and in the publisher community.

"With Jakub Maj, we've managed to gain an exceptional  performance advertising specialist for zanox Poland. Besides excellent contacts, he will also bring additional entrepreneurial thinking into the company. For the expansion of our activities in this key Eastern European market, he is the perfect man for the job," says Alexander Kudlich, Regional Director APAC and CEE at zanox.

zanox Poland is the youngest and, currently, fastest growing zanox branch office. Since commencing business in 2008, zanox Poland supports some of the country's largest companies, such as LOT, Agito or Bank BPH in increasing their online revenues. In addition, a great number of international advertisers, such as Opodo, Halens or Tchibo use the zanox performance advertising network, in order to expand on the Polish market.

About zanox

zanox is the German market leader for performance-based online advertising and, together with its partner companies, Affiliate Window, buy.at and eprofessional, is also the leading performance advertising network in Europe. The zanox Group supports more than 3,300 international advertising customers in the effective marketing of products and services in the internet.

The consistently positive company performance is founded on a performance-based business model aimed at innovation, technological advancement and outstanding service. Besides zanox Affiliate Marketing, the zanox Web Services and zanox Application Store assist top companies in all industries in the monetisation of new internet and mobile applications.

zanox places great importance on the quality of its global publisher network, which it guarantees by means of best personal service from industry experts, as well as by swift and transparent payment. The zanox ‘open company’ philosophy is filled with life on a daily basis through, among others, numerous blogs, the zanox Wiki, and the open API. In addition, the zanox Campus in Berlin, Milan and Amsterdam serves as an international meeting point for developers and the web community.

zanox is owned by Axel Springer AG, with a shareholding of 52.5 percent, and by the Swiss PubliGroupe AG with 47.5 percent.

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