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Board/Management Information • Jun 29, 2007

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Ad-hoc | 29 June 2007 13:58

HCI Capital AG: Changes in the managing board of HCI Capital AG

HCI Capital AG / Change of Personnel/Change of Personnel

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Wolfgang Essing to become new CEO – current CEO Harald Christ intends to
take over new task outside HCI Group

Hamburg, 29.06.2007/ The supervisory board has today resolved to appoint
Wolfgang Essing (42) as new CEO of HCI Capital AG as from October 1, 2007.
HCI Capital AG’s current CEO Harald Christ (35) resigns from his office
with effect to September 30, 2007 to take over a leading position with a
German bank group. Mr. Christ has informed the company that he intends to
remain a material shareholder in HCI Capital AG.

Wolfgang Essing, who started his career as a banker, is since the beginning
of the year 2007 member of the managing board of HCI Capital AG and
responsible for the division sales and marketing. From 1989 until 2000, he
worked for the financial service provider MLP in Heidelberg, at last in a
leading position. In the year 2000, he joined the consultants group
zeb/rolfes.schierenbeck.associates in Muenster, which is specialized on
financial services. During this period, Mr. Essing founded zeb/salesconsult
GmbH, a subsidiary that in only three years became one of the departments
of the zeb group with the highest sales. In 2003, he was appointed as one
of five managing partners of the whole zeb group.

HCI Capital AG
Investor Relations +49 40 88881126 / ir@hci.de

DGAP 29.06.2007

Language: English
Issuer: HCI Capital AG
Bleichenbrücke 10
20354 Hamburg Deutschland
Phone: +49 (0)40 88881-0
Fax: +49 (0)40 88881-109
E-mail: ir@hci.de
Internet: www.hci.de
ISIN: DE000A0D9Y97
WKN: A0D9Y9
Indices: SDAX
Listed: Amtlicher Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard), Hamburg;
Freiverkehr in Berlin-Bremen, Düsseldorf, München, Stuttgart

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