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The Management
Dr. Mario Tobias
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Brief biography
- Since September 2023
Chairman of the Management Board / CEO of Messe Berlin GmbH - 2014 - 2023
Chief Executive Officer, Potsdam Chamber of Commerce and Industry - 2011 - 2014
Secretary General - Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies - 2000 - 2010
German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (bitkom) - Division Manager, from 2005 Member of the Executive Board Technologies & Services - since 2015
Honorary Professor Technical University Braunschweig - 2000 and 2007
Doctorates in natural sciences (TU Braunschweig) and political science (FU Berlin) - 1971
Born in Wolfenbüttel
Dirk Hoffmann
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Brief biography
- Since September 2023 Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer of Messe Berlin
- 2015 – 2022 Managing Director, CFO of Messe Berlin GmbH
- 2009 – 2015
ImmobilienScout24, Berlin – MD, COO - 2001 – 2009
Fox Mobile/Jamba, Berlin – CFO/since 2005 MD - 1998 - 2000
Management Consultant – BMBF/WHU - 1994 - 1997
Booz Allen & Hamilton (today Strategy&/PwC), Munich – Management Consultant - 1993
MBA – University of Texas at Austin (USA) - 1988 - 1992
Dipl.-Kfm. (Master’s degree in Business Admin./Management) – WHU Koblenz (Otto Beisheim School of Management) with studies in USA and Canada - 1969 born in Cologne
Supervisory Board
Dr. Eric Schweitzer
Member of the Shareholders' Committee of ALBA Group, Berlin
Chairman
Franziska Giffey
Mayor of Berlin and Senator
Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterprises, Berlin
First Deputy Chairman
Thomas Blisse
Degree in Business Informatics
Messe Berlin GmbH, Berlin
Employee representative
Ulrike Brabant
Unit-Manager Technical Orders/IT Services
MB Capital Services GmbH, Berlin
Employee representative
Carine Chardon
Managing Director Home Appliances and Consumer Electronics Sections
Jan Eder
CEO
CCI, Berlin
Carla Eysel
Chief Human Resources Officer / Chief nursing Officer
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin
Klaus Feiler
retired permanent secretary for finance, Berlin
André Guse
Dipl.- Kfm., Projectmanager
MB Capital Services GmbH, Berlin
Employee representative
Iris Lanz
Co-Founder, krisenchat gGmbH, Berlin
Karoline Linnert
Former Senator, Freie Hansestadt Bremen
Ulrike Niggemann
Managing Director
Fruitnet Media International GmbH, Düsseldorf
Joachim Rukwied
President
German Farmers’ Association (DBV), Berlin
Dirk Schade
Project Manager Grüne Woche
Messe Berlin GmbH, Berlin
Employee representative
Dr. Norbert Zeglin
Head of Subdepartment purchasing
construction and technology
Messe Berlin GmbH, Berlin
Employee representative