Bernd Kolb

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Bernd Kolb (born November 21, 1962 in Aalen ) is a German entrepreneur.

Live and act

In 1988 Bernd Kolb founded the “ID advertising agency” together with Jürgen Buschbaum, from which ID Media later emerged. In 1993 he developed the first advertising Internet portal in Germany for the West cigarette brand (online 1994). Kolb designed the first German e-commerce platform for the travel company TUI (online 1995). In 1998 Kolb was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the SPD. In 1999 he led ID Media to the stock exchange (Neuer Markt).

In 2005, Kolb sold his shares in ID Media and moved to Deutsche Telekom as board member for innovation and end devices . In 2000, after the resignation of Wolfgang Keuntje, he was acted as CEO of T-Online. However, Thomas Holtrop was preferred. At the beginning of 2007, Kolb left the board at his own request.

In the historic old town of Marrakech , Kolb had a 400-year-old riad converted into the AnaYela Hotel.

In 2008 Bernd Kolb founded a management consultancy based in Berlin. In 2010 he and his wife founded the Club of Marrakesh , a global, interdisciplinary network. Kolb gives lectures on global challenges. The first German edition of the US technology magazine Wired in 2011 counts Kolb among the eleven future-oriented German personalities.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World: The virtual double life of Bernd Kolb. Retrieved April 11, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Bernd Kolb becomes T-Com board member. Manager Magazin, August 31, 2005, accessed October 15, 2011
  3. ↑ We need strong partners. Focus Magazin 42, 2000, accessed October 15, 2011
  4. ↑ The Magic of Marrakech. Focus Online, July 19, 2007, accessed October 15, 2011
  5. ^ Club of the brightest minds. (PDF file; 3.5 MB) VitaMedici, Supplement of Deutsches Ärzteblatt, accessed October 1, 2011 (archive)
  6. ↑ Give the land to the geeks. (PDF file; 794 kB) Wired 1/2011, accessed on September 8, 2011 (archive)
personal data
SURNAME Kolb, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bask