Ringier Global Media Unit: Bernd Volf becomes CTO, Patrick Rademacher COO
With the appointment of Patrick Rademacher as Chief Operating Officer and Bernd Volf as Chief Technology Officer, Ladina Heimgartner, Head Global Media and CEO of the Blick Group, is strengthening the Global Media Unit, which has been operational since the end of 2020. The unit manages the media portfolio of the Ringier Group.
As of January 2022, Bernd Volf will strengthen the Ringier Global Media Unit as Chief Technology Officer. Since 2018, he has managed various IT, Tech&Data and innovation projects for Ringier and the Blick Group on a mandate basis: In 2020/21 he was Technical Product Owner View, project manager for the Blick app and mainly responsible for the development of Ringier Connect, the basic technology of OneLog, the single sign-on solution of the Swiss digital alliance.
Volf started his career in mechanical and vehicle engineering. In 2005, he moved to the IT development and consulting sector. From 2011, Volf worked as Head of Applications for projects focusing on B2C Services & Distribution for TX Group. In 2018, he started his own business with a focus on tech innovations and consulting.
Rademacher appointed COO
As early as October 1, 2021, Ringier will appoint Patrick Rademacher, previously Head Strategy & Intelligence of the Global Media Unit, as its Chief Operating Officer. Rademacher has been with Ringier since 2017. As Head of Special Projects for the Group CEO, he has since supported Ringier CEO Marc Walder in the digital transformation of the company - and will continue to do so in the future. He is Ringier's project manager for the Swiss Digital Alliance, among other things, and a member of the Board of Directors of OneLog. Before Ringier, Rademacher was a strategy consultant at Vogt Media Consulting from 2010 to 2016.
Peter Chabrecek, Head of Business Development within GMU since August 2021, takes over the strategy part from Patrick Rademacher and acts as Head of Strategy and Business Development from October. Previously, Chabrecek was Head Strategic Projects Classifieds and Senior Group Investment Manager at the holding company of Ringier Axel Springer Media, the Eastern Europe joint venture of Ringier and Axel Springer, for the last ten years.
In addition to Patrick Rademacher, Peter Chabrecek, and Bernd Volf, the core team of the Global Media Unit includes Bernhard Brechbühl (Head Content & Publishing Innovation), Katia Murmann (Chief Product Officer), Gaël Hurlimann (Head Subscription), Tim Kollmann (Head Digital Sports Media), Rui de Freitas (Head Advertising), and Laura Crimmons and Jes Scholz (Chief Global Marketing Officer).
