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Till Achinger
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Berlin
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Franziska Ammann
Director
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Düsseldorf
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Since 2011, Franziska Ammann is working in Hering Schuppener Consulting’s Duesseldorf office. She advises companies in crises, change situations, during restructurings as well as regarding different areas of corporate communication. Prior to joining Hering Schuppener, she worked in different editorial departments, for a member of the German Bundestag and in the corporate communications department of Porsche AG. Franziska Ammann holds a Bachelor in communication sciences from Erfurt University and a Master’s degree in Communication Management from Leipzig University. In 2017, she was seconded to the New York office of Hering Schuppener’s strategic partner Finsbury.
Susanne Arnold
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Berlin
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Based in Berlin, Susanne Arnold focuses on positioning strategies and digital financial communications. She mainly advises emerging start-ups, tech companies and venture capital funds. Prior to joining HERING SCHUPPENER, she worked as a communications consultant with CNC AG in Munich. Susanne holds degrees from the University of St. Gallen and the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has also qualified as Certified Investor Relations Officer (CIRO) from the German Investor Relations Association (DIRK) and is an Alumna of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes).
Ali Azimi
Managing Director
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Berlin
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Ali Azimi works at the Berlin office of Hering Schuppener and advises clients on all issues regarding digitalization and strategic communications, with a particular focus on international clients from the tech sector and the start up industry. Prior to joining Hering Schuppener, he has worked for one of the most debated companies from the Silicon Valley. There, he headed corporate communications in the German-speaking area. Ali Azimi studied economics and finance in Mannheim and Frankfurt.
Wouter Baljon
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Brüssel
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Wouter is Director in the Brussels Office of Hering Schuppener’s Corporate & Public Affairs Strategies Practice. He advises clients on strategic positioning and interest representation in the political-regulatory domain at both EU and national level.Wouter joined Hering Schuppener in 2018, after spending four years as head of the technology practice at Kreab Brussels. In this position he was responsible for providing political analysis, strategies and campaigns in view of existing law, political pressure and future regulation to a wide range of global companies. Prior to joining Kreab, Wouter was Head of EU Affairs for SWIFT, the global financial messaging provider headquartered in Belgium, and worked as Vice-President in Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Government Affairs EMEA team. Wouter holds a master's degree in EU Policy Studies (Honours Program) from the University of Amsterdam and a BA Degree in European Studies (Maastricht University).
Dr. Tatiana Belgorodski
Managing Director
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Frankfurt am Main
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Dr. Tatiana Belgorodski is a Managing Director at Hering Schuppener. She advises clients regarding crisis and change communication, with a focus on internal communications and cultural change. Before joining Hering Schuppener in 2006, she worked for more than five years in internal and external HR communications at Deutsche Bank AG in Frankfurt and New York. After her studies in American Literature, Economics and French at the University of Göttingen, she made her Executive MBA in „Communication and Leadership“ at the TU Munich and wrote her PhD thesis on „Value and implementation of storytelling in internal communications“ at the University of Leipzig in parallel to her job. She is a certified business coach (EBS Oestrich-Winkel) and has received in a Change Management Training with the Neuwaldegg Consulting Group.
Hendrik Bender
Managing Director
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Frankfurt am Main
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Hendrik Bender is a Managing Director in Hering Schuppener’s Frankfurt office. His core focus is on corporate and financial communications as well as strategic positioning. Over the past years, Hendrik has supported many companies engaging in M&A transactions and strategic realignment processes. He also provided counsel in situations involving shareholder activists. Hendrik is a fully qualified lawyer. Prior to joining HSC, Hendrik Bender had worked for several international law firms, specializing in Corporate Law. He studied at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and completed his legal training at the higher regional court in Düsseldorf. In 2017, Hendrik was seconded to the New York and London office of Hering Schuppener’s strategic partner Finsbury.
Dan Bender
Digital Advisor
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Berlin
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Dan Bender advises clients on digital product design, ideation and strategy, and digital transformation. In addition, Dan and his team conceptualize and build digital products (mobile apps, platforms, websites.) Previously, Dan worked at Rocket Internet in Berlin as Director of Product. There, he built, launched and scaled global companies as interim co-founding CPO. Before joining Rocket, Dan worked as a web developer in San Francisco. He started his career by founding an award-winning startup. He holds an Executive MBA from TU Munich in cooperation with Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
Christoph Bertram
Partner
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Berlin, Brüssel
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Christoph Bertram has led the build-up of the Brussels office. His focus in Germany and Europe is on advising companies on European anti-trust procedures and regulatory advocacy. He joined Hering Schuppener after six years in politics and social entrepreneurship, where he was among other things a founding member of the Hertie School of Governance. In previous roles, he worked inter alia as personal assistant to Lord Ralf Dahrendorf in the House of Lords, at the ZEIT foundation and at Teach First Deutschland. Christoph studied European competition law, political science, economics and public law in Berkeley, York, Hamburg and in London at the LSE and King’s College.Articles related to Christoph Bertram
Björn Binder
Director
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Berlin
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Björn Binder is a Director in the Berlin office in the Corporate & Public Affairs Strategies Practice. Previously, he worked for several years at the company's office in Brussels. His focus lies with corporates from the manufacturing and technology sector. Prior to joining Hering Schuppener, he gained professional experience in various organisations, such as the German Bundestag and the Representation of Baden-Württemberg to the European Union in Brussels. He studied Politics and Sociology at the University of Tübingen and Political Management, Public Policy and Public Administration at the NRW School of Governance (University of Duisburg-Essen).
Katharina Blumenfeld
Managing Director
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Frankfurt am Main
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Katharina Blumenfeld joined HERING SCHUPPENER in 2010 and works in the capital markets team at the Frankfurt office. She advises clients on M&A transactions and IPOs as well as on their strategic positioning. Her clients range from family-owned businesses in Germany to international corporations. Within HERING SCHUPPENER’s global partnership, Katharina Blumenfeld coordinates the Associate Partners in Europe and worked in that context at the offices of Fogel & Partners in Stockholm and Image Sept in Paris. Before starting at HERING SCHUPPENER, she worked at a French-American finance company based in Paris. She has studied at the Universities of Hohenheim, Stuttgart and Sciences Po Bordeaux and holds a diploma in communications and political science.
Benjamin Bühringer
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Berlin
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Benjamin Bühringer works for the Corporate & Public Affairs Strategies division and is based in the company’s Berlin office. He advises clients on questions of strategic positioning in political-regulatory affairs. His focus lies on the area of sustainability and corporate purpose as well as on the political dimension of labour and social affairs issues . Prior to joining Hering Schuppener in 2014, he gained professional experience with the PR agency Scholz & Friends Agenda, as a journalist freelancer, in the German Bundestag and in the German Embassy in London. Benjamin studied Politics and Management at the University of Konstanz and holds a Master’s degree in International Political Communication from the University of Sheffield.
Biancastella de Angelis
Managing Director
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Brüssel
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Biancastella de Angelis works for the Corporate & Public Affairs Strategies division and is based in the company’s Brussels office. She advises clients on strategic positioning, advocacy campaigns and interest representation in the political-regulatory domain at both EU and national level, and the political dimension of competition and trade cases. Before joining Hering Schuppener, she worked for Hewlett-Packard in the areas of Global Account Management and Marketing. Biancastella holds a Master of Science in Business Administration from Lund University, a Master of Arts in European Politics and Administration from the College of Europe in Bruges and studied business at the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien. Besides her native Italian, she speaks German, English, French and Swedish.
Dr. Hans-Elmar Döllekes
Chief Financial Officer
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Düsseldorf
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Dr. Hans-Elmar Doellekes is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Hering Schuppener Group. Previously, he was Managing Partner of the Munich-based management and interim management consultancy ANTEVORTE, where he e. g. accompanied the growth strategy of the Ostertag Group as initiator, CFO and shareholder. From 2002 to 2011, he was Divisional Director and Principal at Kienbaum Management Consultants in Düsseldorf. There he was responsible for the areas of Corporate Finance, Corporate Restructuring & Development. At the same time, he was an honorary professor for Corporate Strategic Management in MBA programs at the Frankfurt University of Economics and Management for 15 years.His personal references as a consultant and manager include family-owned SMEs and corporations, including FujiFilm, Toyota, Daimler, E.ON, Merck-Serono, Aventis and private equity companies. He completed his studies in business administration at the University of Münster (Finance, Accounting & Controlling as well as Marketing) and the University of California Los Angeles (Money & Banking). Afterwards he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. pol. alongside his job at the University of Dortmund.
Tanja Dorr
Director
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Frankfurt am Main
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Tanja Dorr is Director at the Frankfurt office of Hering Schuppener. She advices large and small companies in all matters of strategic positioning, media relations and capital markets communications. She particularly enjoys moving between the world of start-ups and large corporate groups. She works for companies in various sectors, but with a focus on finance and energy.Tanja Dorr studied political science, business administration and sinology at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She was a scholarship-holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation).
Oda von Dreising
Senior Director, Head of Recruiting & HR Development
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Frankfurt am Main
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Oda von Dreising is a Senior Director, Head of Recruiting & HR Development at Hering Schuppener and works out of the Frankfurt office. Previously, she focussed on advisory services for clients in capital market transactions as well as all aspects of strategic positioning. Prior to joining Hering Schuppener in 2009, she worked at Deutsche Asset Management in London and Frankfurt as well as for the international management consulting firm Towers Perrin. Oda studied Business Administration and Romance languages at the University of Mannheim and the Université Lyon 2 in France.
Folker Dries
Managing Partner
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Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main
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Folker Dries is a Managing Partner at Hering Schuppener and works out of the offices in Frankfurt and Duesseldorf. He focuses on advising clients particularly on issues relating to corporate and CEO positioning and financial communications. Folker is also Hering Schuppener's media trainer. Prior to moving into consultancy, he spent 17 years working as a business journalist; in his last role, he was the Financial Editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) in Frankfurt. Before that, he was the newspaper’s Wall Street correspondent in New York. He started out in journalism at the Börsen-Zeitung as a correspondent in Munich, London and New York. Folker holds a diploma in economics. He studied at the University of Würzburg.Articles related to Folker Dries
Tim Efing
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Berlin
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Tim Efing is a Director in Corporate & Public Affairs Strategies team in Berlin. With his focus on energy, infrastructure, mobility and climate protection, he advises clients primarily on strategic positioning in the political and societal environment. Before returning to Hering Schuppener, Tim Efing worked for several years in one of the largest German industry associations, initially as a speechwriter, later as head of the office of the executive board. Industrial transformation, decarbonisation and decentralisation in the German and European context were a focal point of his work. Tim Efing studied political science, modern history and public law at the universities of Heidelberg, Bonn and Santiago de Compostela.
Raphael Eisenmann
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Frankfurt am Main
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Raphael Eisenmann advises clients on strategic positioning and M&A transactions. He is specialised in strategy and CEO communications. He works in the Frankfurt office and was seconded to the New York office of Finsbury in 2018. Prior to joining Hering Schuppener, he worked for Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and public institutions. He was ranked on the #30u30 watchlist of PR Report and participant of the Young Global Leader Conference of the American Council on Germany. He studied political science, management and communications in Konstanz, Mainz and Lugano.
Rebecca Eisert
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Düsseldorf
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Rebecca Eisert recently joined Hering Schuppener as a director in the team special situations. She has worked for more than ten years as an economic journalist focused on automotive industries and digitization, most recently in a management position for Automobilwoche in Munich. She previously worked as an editor in the ‘companies and markets’ department at WirtschaftsWoche, a German business weekly, in Düsseldorf. She studied communication sciences and economics at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and the Free University of Brussels. She graduated in 2005 with a diploma in journalism.
Christian Falkowski
Managing Director
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Frankfurt am Main
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Christian Falkowski is a Managing Director at the Frankfurt office of Hering Schuppener. He advises clients regarding communication challenges particularly in connection with capital market transactions as well as on the field of investor relations. Christian works for companies in various sectors, but with a focus on real estate. Before he joined Hering Schuppener, Christian supported the communication units of two worldwide leading auditing and tax consulting companies. Christian holds a German diploma in Business Administration. Furthermore, he studied International Management at the University of Surabaya, Indonesia, and the German- Kazakh University, Kazakhstan.
Regina Frauen
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Frankfurt am Main
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Regina Frauen is a Director within the capital markets team in Frankfurt. She focuses on all aspects of strategic positioning, on financial and on M&A-related communications. Over the past years, Regina has consulted clients on private, public, domestic and cross-border transactions. She spent one year working in London and New York, where she was responsible for the company’s international network. Earlier work experiences include inter alia the PR agency Pleon (now Ketchum Pleon). Regina holds a Dipl.-Kffr. degree (M.Sc. equivalent) in Business Administration with a major in Finance, Marketing and Statistics. She studied at the University of Mannheim, London School of Economics and University of Valencia.
Bettina Fries
Senior Advisor
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Düsseldorf
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Bettina Fries advises clients on capital markets communications with a particular focus on IPOs. She also supports listed companies in all aspects of financial communications and in building up and expanding their communications activities. Bettina Fries has many years of experience in advising family businesses. She joined Hering Schuppener more than ten years ago and works from the Düsseldorf office. Previously, she was Head of Corporate Communications of a TecDax company. Bettina holds an M.A. in communications, economics and art history.
Alexander Geiser
Managing Partner
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Frankfurt am Main
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Alexander Geiser is Managing Partner at Hering Schuppener since 2003. He advises clients on the development and implementation of their communication strategies and is also specialized in the communication of M&A as well as CEO changes. Alexander has advised on more than 100 domestic and international transactions. Between 1996 and 2001, he worked within the Hering Schuppener Group in the field of corporate strategy and development in Düsseldorf, London and New York. Alexander studied business administration and politics at the Western University in Canada. He completed post-graduate studies at INSEAD in 2000, and Harvard University in 2016. In 2014, he was appointed to the group of Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum (Geneva).
Dr. Brigitte von Haacke
Managing Partner
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Frankfurt am Main
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Dr. Brigitte von Haacke is a Managing Partner at Hering Schuppener and works out of the Frankfurt office. She focusses on advisory services for clients in capital market transactions as well as all aspects of strategic positioning. She works for companies in various sectors, but with a focus on technology and retail. Prior to joining Hering Schuppener, she worked as a journalist for Wirtschaftswoche (German Business Weekly) for 12 years, as the US correspondent and financial markets reporter in Frankfurt, amongst other roles. Brigitte is a graduate of the Cologne School of Journalism and studied economics at the University of Cologne, where she also completed her PhD thesis.
Katrin Häbel
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Frankfurt am Main
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Katrin Häbel is a Managing Director at Hering Schuppener in Frankfurt/Main, where she works in the Corporate Communications Team. She advises clients particularly in crisis and change situations and in all aspects of internal communication.Katrin Häbel began her career with Hering Schuppener and has been with the company since the year 2001. She studied Mass Communications, German and American language and literature and Journalism at the University of Mainz and at the American University in Washington D.C.
Philipp Halstrick
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Frankfurt am Main
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Philipp Halstrick works at the Frankfurt office of Hering Schuppener and advises clients of different sectors on all issues regarding capital market communications and strategic positioning, with a particular focus on M&A transactions. Prior to joining Hering Schuppener, Philipp had worked for 14 years as a business journalist for Reuters. Most recently, he served as the Top News Editor in Germany, coordinating the news agency’s German file. Previously, he was leading the international banking team in Frankfurt as Chief Correspondent. In that role, he also broadened and strengthened the M&A and corporate finance coverage. Philipp started his career as a trainee at the news agency. He studied political science and economics in Bamberg (Germany) and Fribourg (Switzerland).
Ralf Hering
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On February 16, 2018, Ralf Hering, founder of the Hering Schuppener company to which he also lent his name, died suddenly of heart failure at the age of only 61. We are deeply shocked and terribly saddened. Ralf Hering gave the Group its character and set of values. For all of us, his passing is a huge loss. Our thoughts are with Ralf’s family and our condolences go out to his wife and three children.
Jobst Honig
Managing Director
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Berlin
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Jobst Honig is a Managing Director at the Berlin office of Hering Schuppener. His consulting focus is on strategic positioning, financial communications, shareholder activism and Investor Relations. His clients include German and international blue-chip companies, tech and family businesses as well as international private equity funds. Before joining Hering Schuppener, Jobst worked as a project manager for a major German family-owned company, where he was responsible for strategic development, M&A and restructuring projects. Prior to that, he worked for Deutsche Lufthansa AG for seven years, including three years as investor Relations manager and spokesman. Jobst studied law and business administration and holds a master's degree from WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management and Bucerius Law School.
Julian Jacobitz
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Brüssel
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Julian Jacobitz works for the Corporate & Public Affairs Strategies division and is based in the company’s Brussels office, having previously worked in the Berlin and Frankfurt offices. In his close to ten years at the company, he has advised on many EU-level advocacy strategies as well as in special situations such as cross-border M&A, trade cases, corporate crises, and change situations. He began his career in the State Parliamentary office of Christian Lindner, then general-secretary of the German Liberals/FDP. Julian holds an M.Sc. in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics (LSE). He previously studied at Maastricht University and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Apart from his native German, he speaks English, Brazilian Portuguese, French, and Spanish.
Georg Jakobs
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Frankfurt am Main
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Georg Jakobs focuses on all aspects of strategic positioning, on financial as well on M&A-related communications. Georg works from the Frankfurt office and advises clients from various sectors, in particular from the financial services industry. Before joining Hering Schuppener in 2005, Georg worked 14 years as a journalist, in his last role as a financial correspondent for manager magazin. He also spent seven years at Handelsblatt as a financial markets correspondent and banking reporter in Frankfurt. He graduated in economics and started his professional career as a reporter for a regional daily.
Matthis Kaiser
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Berlin, Brüssel
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Matthis Kaiser works for the Corporate & Public Affairs Strategies division and is based in the company’s Berlin office. He advises clients on strategic positioning, political-regulatory affairs, and the political dimension of competition cases. Before joining Hering Schuppener, Matthis worked at the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation’s international and economic policy research unit, policy think tank Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and for a member of the German Bundestag. Matthis holds a master’s degree in political science from the Universities of Bonn and Birmingham and a Postgraduate Diploma in EU Competition Law from King’s College London.Articles related to Matthis Kaiser
Dr. Phoebe Kebbel
Managing Partner
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Frankfurt am Main
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Working from the Frankfurt office, Phoebe Kebbel focuses on corporate and financial communications. In addition to supporting various DAX and MDAX groups for many years, Phoebe has advised clients on communications in over 50 M&A transactions – ranging from midcap acquisitions to hostile cross-border takeovers. Earlier work experiences include inter alia the PR agency Kohtes Klewes (now Ketchum Pleon). The business administration graduate studied at the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, the Richard Ivey School of Business in Canada and the Ecole de Management de Lyon in France. She teaches communications management at the University of Leipzig.Articles related to Dr. Phoebe Kebbel
Andreas Kolbe
Managing Director
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Düsseldorf
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Andreas Kolbe is a Managing Director in Hering Schuppener's capital markets team. Based in the Düsseldorf office, he preliminarily advises clients in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area. He focusses on strategic positioning and financial communications. He also advises on M&A transactions. Andreas joined Hering Schuppener from the German national public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk, after he was a radio journalist for more than ten years. He holds a diploma in journalism and business administration from the Universities of Dortmund and Cape Town.
Joachim Koschnicke
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Berlin
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Joachim Koschnicke works in the Corporate & Public Affairs Strategies Practice in the Berlin office. He focuses on advising companies on strategic stakeholder communications and especially on how to position themselves and advocate their interests in the political sphere.Before Joachim joined Hering Schuppener in 2018, he advised Chancellor Merkel as Head of Strategic Planning and Strategic Communications during the federal election in 2017 – as he did from 2005 to 2011. From 2013 to 2017 he worked at General Motors Europe / Opel&Vauxhall as Vice President Public Policy & Industry Strategy. From 2011 to 2013 he was Managing Director with a German company specialized on opinion surveys in the political, commercial & media environment.Joachim started his career with Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances as Inhouse Consultant of the Board’s Strategic Planning Unit. Joachim studied Business and attended Executive Trainings with Insead and Stanford in Measuring Cooperate Performance and Transformational Leadership. He is Founder and Member of the Board of the NGO InCharge and Member of the Advisory Board of the Berlin based Quadriga University.Articles related to Joachim Koschnicke
Tina Kunath
Managing Director
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Düsseldorf
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Tina Kunath works at Hering Schuppener Consulting’s Dusseldorf office. Since 2008, she provides advise to clients in strategic corporate communications in preparation and implementation of change, in particular in restructuring, as well as for crises issues. From 2016 and 2018 she was media spokesperson of international insurer ERGO Group. Prior she worked for public affairs consultancies Plato as well as Burson-Marsteller in Berlin. She studied history, politics and English literature in Bremen, Dusseldorf and Newcastle, UK.
Dr. Richard Lucht
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Frankfurt am Main
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Richard Lucht is a Director within the capital markets team in Frankfurt. He advises clients on strategic positioning and M&A transactions. He is specialised in innovation communication and helps clients to be positioned in topics such as new mobility, artificial intelligence, robotics, and digitization. Before joining Hering Schuppener, he worked for a Rocket Internet start-up and for Daimler. Prior to that, he was Head of Communications on the Board of AIESEC in Germany. As a scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, he did his PhD on “Seduction and Men” and studied literature, rhetoric, and philosophy in Tübingen und Aix-en-Provence. He has a French Master’s degree and a German Magister degree.
Andrea Maibaum
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Andrea Maibaum is Director in the Frankfurt office of Hering Schuppener. She advises companies and industry associations in all questions of strategic positioning and media relations. Her focus lies on CEO positioning and company’s reputation management with view to economic, societal and political aspects. Before Andrea joined Hering Schuppener, she worked six years for g+ Europe, a media relations and public affairs agency in Brussels and London. There she was in charge of multinational communication campaigns and advised clients in the area of European energy, transport and competition policy. Andrea studied law and history of art in Würzburg, Padova (Italy) and Munich and holds a MSc in European Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Patrick Maloney
Managing Director
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Frankfurt am Main
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Patrick Maloney is a Managing Director in the Frankfurt office of Hering Schuppener. He advises clients from various industries in their positioning and in change communications with a particular focus on leadership and employee communication.Before joining Hering Schuppener, he worked as a freelance communication consultant and executive speechwriter for a year. Prior to this, he spent more than ten years with E.ON where, in his last role, he headed the communications department of the utility’s global business services subsidiary.Patrick holds a Master degree in Business Administration. He studied at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and the University College Dublin.
Dirk von Manikowsky
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Dirk von Manikowsky advises companies and organisations in challenging crisis and change situations, focusing particularly on communications advice in criminal or civil litigation, antitrust or fraud proceedings, compliance issues as well as restructuring. He headed the press and public relations department of private bank Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. until 2011 and served as the group’s press spokesman in Cologne and Luxembourg for six years. Previously, he worked for nine years as an advisor focusing on financial and crisis communications in Cologne and Düsseldorf. Dirk studied communications, political science and English literature.Articles related to Dirk von Manikowsky
Tina Mentner
Managing Partner
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Düsseldorf
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Tina Mentner leads the Special Situations Practice of Hering Schuppener. From the Düsseldorf office, she develops communication strategies for crisis and change situations with a focus on restructuring processes and insolvencies. Since joining Hering Schuppener in 1999, Tina has advised far more than 100 companies on the prevention and handling of crises. Her previous work experience includes a leading corporate communications consultancy where she formed part of the advisory team that backed up the IPO of Deutsche Telekom. Tina studied at the universities of Bochum and Munich. She holds an M.A. in communications, economics and market and organisational psychology.
Sebastian Mewissen
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Sebastian Mewißen is a Managing Director at the Düsseldorf office of Hering Schuppener. He advises clients particularly in connection with IPOs, capital market transactions and strategic corporate profiling and positioning. Before joining Hering Schuppener in 2007 he worked with other PR-Consultancies. In addition, he built up journalistic expertise by working for a regional TV station and newspapers. Sebastian Mewißen graduated from Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn as Magister Artium (M.A.). He studied Politics, Sociology and Modern History.
Kathrin Meyer
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Frankfurt am Main
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Kathrin Meyer works from the Frankfurt office and specializes in financial communications, media relations and CEO positioning. Prior to joining HERING SCHUPPENER, Kathrin spent seven years as a business journalist at Springer Science & Business Media. Most recently she worked as a financial journalist for “Der Platow Brief” in Frankfurt. Kathrin holds a diploma in Business Administration. She studied at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and the Universiteit St. Ignatius of Antwerp and underwent formal training as a banker.
Sandra Neuner
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Berlin
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Sandra Neuner works for the Corporate & Public Affairs Strategies division in Berlin. She advises clients on strategic positioning in the political and societal domain, as well as in interest representation in Germany and at EU level. Her focus lies with companies from the manufacturing industry, and in the areas sustainability and infrastructure. In addition, she is responsible for recruitment and employee development within the Corporate Affairs & Public Strategies division. Prior to joining Hering Schuppener in 2010, she worked for the energy supply company EnBW and for Bosch Gasoline Systems. Sandra Neuner has a diploma in communication studies from the University of Hohenheim, Germany.
Raphael Neuner
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Raphael Neuner heads Hering Schuppener's Digital Practice and focuses on strategic communication in the digital age. He advises venture capital funds, start-ups and established companies on their positioning in the digital space and communicating the digital transformation. Before joining Hering Schuppener, Raphael was Head of Public Policy at Metro AG. The digital and social dimensions of public affairs and communication were a focal point of his work; among other things, he developed the "digital head office" of the company. The political scientist also worked as personal advisor to a party chairman at the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany in Brussels and in a Federal Ministry.Articles related to Raphael Neuner
Thomas von Oehsen
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Berlin
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Thomas von Oehsen advises clients from Hering Schuppener's Berlin office. His focus is on the strategic and communicative positioning of companies in the areas of corporate governance, sustainability and investor relations, including dealing with influential and activist investors. Before joining Hering Schuppener, Thomas von Oehsen worked with the world's largest proxy adviser, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), in the United States and Germany, where he served as head of the German-speaking markets for many years and was also responsible for the global ISS voting guidelines. Thomas von Oehsen started his career in the financial services unit of the former DaimlerChrysler AG in Australia and Germany. Afterwards, he advised clients with his own consulting firm. Thomas von Oehsen is a fully qualified lawyer and holds a Master of Business Administration. He studied law at the Free University of Berlin.
Alexander Otto
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Berlin
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Alexander Otto advises international clients, primarily from the industrial, technology and infrastructure sectors, in the areas of strategic positioning and representation of interests. Before joining HERING SCHUPPENER, Alexander worked for Philip Morris International in Munich in the corporate affairs section, for the German Embassy in London and the Cologne-based OnVista Group in the fields of marketing and external communications.
Henriette Peucker
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Henriette Peucker works from the Brussels office in the Corporate & Public Affairs Strategies Practice. She focuses on advising companies in strategic stakeholder communications and especially on how to position themselves and advocate their interests in the political sphere in the EU and Germany. Her focus is on highly regulated industries such as energy, transportation and finance. Henriette joined Hering Schuppener in 2010 from Deutsche Börse Group where she was Head of European Public Affairs. Between 1997 and 2002, she worked in the investment banking divisions of Schroders and Citigroup in London and before that in the French public affairs consultancy ESL&Network in Paris and Brussels. Henriette graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris in 1991 and holds a Master in European Business Law from the University of Paris XI in Sceaux.Articles related to Henriette Peucker
Philippe Radinger
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Brüssel
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Philippe Radinger works for the Corporate & Public Affairs Strategies division and is based in the company’s Brussels office. He advises clients on questions of strategic positioning in political-regulatory affairs, and the political dimensions of competition cases, with a focus on merger control proceedings in regulated and transformative markets. Before joining Hering Schuppener, he worked in the competition practice of a top-tier German law firm and gained further experience in the EU representation of a German energy provider, as well as at the Federal Press Office in Berlin. Philippe Radinger holds an LL.M. in European competition and financial law from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Felix Schönauer
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Felix Schönauer works from the Frankfurt office and advises clients on capital markets communications and strategic positioning. He has a particular focus on national and international M&A and other capital markets-related transactions. He also offers media coachings on a board member level. Felix joined Hering Schuppener from a strategic and organisational consultancy firm where he spent four years. Previously, he worked for eight years as a financial journalist for Handelsblatt, a German business and financial daily. He had assignments in several cities, especially in London where he worked for roughly five years as a financial markets correspondent. Felix holds a degree in economics.
Benjamin Schroeter
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Ben Schroeter is an expert on public policy, competition, and regulation. He provides high level counsel to numerous clients in regulated industries and the technology sector. Ben has also advised on some of the most prominent mergers of the past years. Before joining Hering Schuppener, he served as chief of staff at the German parliament and worked at an economics think tank. Ben holds a M.Sc. in Competition Economics and Market Regulation from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. He also completed the Strategy beyond Markets program at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
Alex Seiler
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Alex Seiler advises companies on strategic positioning, financial communications as well as on M&A transactions. He works from the Frankfurt office and supports clients from various sectors, with a focus on the aviation, automotive and financial industries. Prior to joining Hering Schuppener, he worked for the communication and PR consultancy Pleon (now: Ketchum Pleon). During this time, he particularly advised financial services firms. Alex majored in modern German literature with minors in theatre studies and political science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. In 2016, he completed the executive programme “M&A and Corporate Strategy” at INSEAD Business School.
Anna Sperber
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Anna Sperber is a Managing Director at Hering Schuppener and works out of the Frankfurt office. She focusses on advisory services for clients in capital market transactions as well as all aspects of strategic positioning. She works for companies in various sectors, but with a focus on technology and the financial services industry. Prior to joining Hering Schuppener in 2007, she worked as a free lancer journalist for ZDF (German public TV broadcaster). Anna studied economic history at the University of Mannheim. Moreover she holds a Masters in Communication Management of the University of Technology in Sydney (Australia).
Simon Steiner
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Simon Steiner works from the Frankfurt office and advises clients in all aspects of financial communication, strategic positioning and particularly on communication in the context of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and capital market transactions. Before joining Hering Schuppener, Simon Steiner had worked for Commerzbank since 2012. There, he was initially responsible for the financial communications activities of the group. Subsequently, he became the head of external communications and was in charge of the entire media relations department of the Bank. Simon Steiner, who holds a degree in political science, started his career as a financial and business journalist at the news agency VWD. From 2004, he reported on international financial markets as stock market correspondent for the news agency Dow Jones Newswires. Most recently he was responsible for the reporting on the finance sector in Germany and Austria at the US media outlet.
Prof. Dr. Christopher Storck
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Christopher combines practice and science through a professorship for strategy and communications management at Quadriga University Berlin. He is also a member of the steering committee of the specialist group for communications controlling in the International Controller Association (ICV) and the scientific advisory board of the German Association of Communicators (BdKom). Prior to joining Hering Schuppener in 2000, Christopher was an assistant professor at the University of Cologne and headed the editorial team of a scientific magazine for international and ethnic conflict management. Christopher is a certified business coach of the EBS University for Economics and Law in Wiesbaden.
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Christopher Storck is a partner in the Tech & Transformation Practice of Hering Schuppener. He deals with the transformation of companies and the new demands this places on their communication functions. His consulting activities focus on the formulation and dissemination of strategies, the establishment and protection of economically relevant reputations as well as the reorganization and further development of communications departments.Christopher combines practice and science through a professorship for strategy and communications management at Quadriga University Berlin. He is also a member of the steering committee of the specialist group for communications controlling in the International Controller Association (ICV) and the scientific advisory board of the German Association of Communicators (BdKom). Prior to joining Hering Schuppener in 2000, Christopher was an assistant professor at the University of Cologne and headed the editorial team of a scientific magazine for international and ethnic conflict management. Christopher is a certified business coach of the EBS University for Economics and Law in Wiesbaden.
Dominik Veit
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Dominik Veit advises companies on strategic positioning, corporate and financial communications as well as mergers and acquisitions. Working from the Frankfurt office, he supports clients from a range of sectors, with a special focus on the financial services industry. In particular, he has extensive experience in private equity, and advising on CEO transitions.Dominik started his professional career in journalism, working for a regional newspaper. He holds a Bachelor (BA) from the University of Mannheim (Germany) as well as a double master degree (MSc) from Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics (LSE).
Dr. Robert Vollrath
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From the Frankfurt office, Dr. Robert Vollrath mainly advises companies on questions of financial communication and investor relations, including corporate governance. Before joining Hering Schuppener, he was Deputy Head of Investor Relations at Deutsche Bank and issuer representative on the Executive Board of the German Investor Relations Association (DIRK). From 2001 to 2009, Dr. Robert Vollrath worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company in Germany and New York. Subsequently, he was responsible for setting up the OTC Clearing business at Deutsche Börse Group. Dr. Robert Vollrath holds a PhD from the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and a degree in Business Administration from WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management.Articles related to Dr. Robert Vollrath
Olaf Zapke
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Olaf Zapke is Managing Director in the Frankfurt office of Hering Schuppener. He advises clients from various industries, focusing on strategic positioning, capital market communications and M&A transactions. Before joining Hering Schuppener, he worked for the leading global news and data provider Thomson Reuters, most recently for a decade as editor-in-chief for the Germany, Switzerland, Austria region and, since 2018, as Managing Director Germany. Prior to that, he was a correspondent at Deutsche Presse-Agentur, where he covered topics such as the economy, mergers & acquisitions and IPOs. Mr. Zapke studied political science at the University of Cologne.
Stefanie Zuberer
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Düsseldorf
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Stefanie Zuberer is Director for Marketing at the Düsseldorf Office of Hering Schuppener. Prior to this she worked for PwC in Marketing and Communications, in consulting for Hering Schuppener and Bosch. Stefanie Zuberer holds a Master degree in American Studies from LMU in Munich.
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