BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Effective July 1, 2015 Peter Würtenberger, 48, will become Executive Vice President Corporate Development of Axel Springer (GER:SPR.DE), Europe's leading digital publisher. Based out of New York, he will support Axel Springer’s strategy of expansion in English-speaking countries. He reports directly to Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer SE.
Peter Würtenberger has been working at Axel Springer since 2001.
He has served as Axel Springer's Chief Marketing Officer for more than six years and currently heads up Axel Springer Media Impact, one of Germany’s leading media marketing and sales organizations. From September 2012 to March 2013 Peter Würtenberger took part in a research project for Axel Springer in the Silicon Valley and helped develop new business ideas strengthening digital growth.
Mathias Döpfner said, "Peter Würtenberger is a dedicated growth manager and has turned Axel Springer Media Impact into Germany's largest multimedia marketing organization. Building on his experience with digital innovation projects in the Silicon Valley, I cannot think of a more suitable individual to expand Axel Springer’s footprint in the English-speaking world."
About Axel Springer
Axel Springer aims to become the leading digital publisher in every market it operates. Headquartered in Berlin, the company is active in more than 40 countries with subsidiaries, joint ventures, and licenses. Axel Springer SE is divided into three operating segments: Paid Models, Marketing Models and Classified Ad Models. In 2014 it achieved an EBITDA of EUR 507.1 million. More than half of Group revenues were generated by digital activities; their share of EBITDA amounted to two-thirds of Group EBITDA.
Since 2014, Axel Springer SE operates a US-American subsidiary based in the Silicon Valley. Headed by Anton Waitz, Axel Springer Digital Ventures Inc. implements early-stage investments and connects closely with the American digital media sector. Axel Springer is currently the second largest stakeholder of online news and culture magazine OZY and holds minority stakes in social video news publisher NowThis Media, photo community Pixlee.com as well as in the community marketplace Airbnb.com. Through aufeminin, the world’s No. 1 provider of editorial and community-based content for women, Axel Springer plans to acquire 100 percent of US digital publisher Livingly Media this Spring. In September of 2014, Axel Springer joined forces with POLITICO in order to launch a European edition of POLITICO, a new digital political media offering that will offer in-depth coverage of European politics and policy in 2015.