Martin Kall

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Martin Kall (born January 7, 1961 in Bergisch Gladbach ) is a German manager . From April 2002 to the end of 2012 he was chairman of the management of Tamedia AG , a listed media company in Switzerland .

Life

Kall studied history and economics at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and at the London School of Economics and Political Science . In 1987 he graduated with a degree in economics. 1989 earned an MBA from Harvard Business School . He then worked for the Bertelsmann Group between 1989 and 1996 , most recently as Managing Director of Bertelsmann Fachinformation GmbH in Munich. From January 1997, Kall headed the Swiss publishing house Ringier Europa and from August 2000 also the Ringier Magazines division until he took up his position as CEO and successor to Michel M. Favre at Tamedia in 2002 . At the beginning of 2013, Kall resigned as CEO of Tamedia in order to realign himself professionally. In April 2013 he was appointed to the Board of Directors elected by Tamedia. At the beginning of June 2013, the shareholders 'meeting of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) elected him to the supervisory board, and at the end of July 2013 Kall was elected chairman of the supervisory board and shareholders' committee of the former WAZ media group, renamed Funke Mediengruppe GmbH & Co. KGaA .

Kall lives with his wife and son in Zollikon .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official Journal of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. ( PDF ) C - N ° 2272. October 25, 2010, p. 109013 (PDF p. 5) , accessed on July 18, 2011 .
  2. Martin Kall. Bloomberg Businessweek.com, accessed July 18, 2011 .
  3. ^ Daniel Ryser , Rachel Vogt: The Tamedia story. WOZ Die Wochenzeitung , July 5, 2007, accessed on July 18, 2011 .
  4. ^ WAN-IFRA Executive Committee: Martin Kall. Ifra.net, March 1, 2010, accessed July 18, 2011 .
  5. Ringier Kall did it quickly. Balance sheet , March 31, 2002, accessed July 18, 2011 .
  6. Martin Kall goes to TA-Media. Horizont.net, October 2, 2001, archived from the original on April 19, 2014 ; Retrieved July 18, 2011 .
  7. Tamedia: From sound and smoke. Balance sheet , June 30, 2002, accessed July 18, 2011 .
  8. Tamedia boss Martin Kall resigns. Tages-Anzeiger , August 31, 2011
  9. ^ Tamedia, Board of Directors , on tamedia.ch
  10. Martin Kall becomes a member of the FAZ Board of Directors , NZZ, June 12, 2013, accessed on July 27, 2013
  11. ^ Funke media group with a new legal form , derwesten.de, July 27, 2013, accessed on July 27, 2013
  12. Power network by Martin Kall: The fast renovator. Balance sheet , March 31, 2005, accessed July 18, 2011 .