Patrick Diemer
Chairman of the Executive Board
AirPlus International

Patrick W. Diemer was born in Mainz, Germany, in 1957. He holds a Master degree in economics which he studied in Kiel and in Hamburg.

He started his business experience as Market Research & Marketing Planning Analyst at PRODIGY Inc., White Plains, U.S.A., where he worked until 1986.

After that Patrick W. Diemer headed the marketing department of Matuschka Privat Finanz in Munich as Partner and Member of the Managing Board of Directors for five years. In 1991 this company was acquired by Commerzbank. That was how he came to Frankfurt where he continued to work six years for Commerzbank, his last position being Senior Vice President, Head of Marketing, private & retail banking customers.

From 1997 until March 2003 Patrick W. Diemer was General Manager of Visa Interna-tional in Germany.

He joined AirPlus International in April 2003 where he serves as Chairman of the Ex-ecutive Board. He is responsible for Human Resources, Strategy, Marketing and Sales as well as all activities concerning the international expansion of AirPlus.

Mr. Diemer concentrates his activities especially on international sales: The foundation of a subsidiary company in Switzerland and of a Headquarter in Hong Kong were very successful as well as the diverse strategic partnerships with airlines, car rental compa-nies etc. At this time AirPlus has more than 30,000 corporate customers in more than 30 countries.

Furthermore Mr. Diemer is member of the Advisory Committee of the Marketing Club in Frankfurt as well as member of the Board of Directors of Universal Air Travel Plan (Washington) and of Travel Industry Club (Frankfurt).