Veit Dengler

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Veit Valentin Dengler (born November 21, 1968 in Graz ) is an Austrian manager . From October 1, 2013 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the NZZ media group , a media company in Switzerland with the journalistic flagship of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ). Dengler has been a member of the executive board of the German Bauer Media Group since April 2018 .

Together with Matthias Strolz , Dengler conceived a new liberal party in 2012, NEOS - Das Neue Österreich und Liberales Forum , and was deputy chairman until October 2013.

Life

Veit V. Dengler holds degrees from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Vienna University of Economics and Business . From 1987 to 1990 Dengler worked as a journalist in the Eastern European office of Time Magazine . In his career he held various positions at Procter & Gamble , McKinsey and T-Mobile. Dengler worked for the world's leading technology provider Dell for seven years , most recently he was responsible for business operations in 32 countries in Eastern and Central Europe. In 2012 he worked as Senior Vice President of the International Business Unit for Groupon . In October 2013 Dengler was appointed CEO of the NZZ media group.

On June 7, 2017, the NZZ media group announced that Dengler would be leaving the company. The reason given was differences of opinion between Dengler and the board of directors about how the company's strategic direction should be applied. From April 2018, Dengler took over the management of activities in the UK, the USA, Australia and other countries, as well as the development of new business areas, in the group management of the German Bauer Media Group .

Politics and private matters

In 2011 Matthias Strolz and Dengler conceived the foundation of a new liberal party for Austria. When founding convention on October 27, 2012 Dengler as Deputy Chairman of was Neos - The New Austria , selected. In addition, he took over the management in January 2013. After joining the NZZ media group, Dengler stepped down from both positions.

Dengler grew up as the son of the Austrian ambassador Johann Josef Dengler (1921–2011) and the musician Gudrun Dengler in Austria , Hungary and Finland . He is divorced and has four children.

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  1. ↑ Commercial register announcement of the company LinguaNet AG in progress. In: Unternehmer24.at of July 21, 2005.
  2. ↑ Elisalex Henckel: Neos: Austria's pink spot in the political landscape . In: THE WORLD . October 20, 2013 ( welt.de [accessed November 14, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Veit Dengler becomes the new CEO of the NZZ media group. NZZ.ch, June 18, 2013, accessed on November 28, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Veit Dengler says "Servus" and leaves the "NZZ". In: Wiener Zeitung . June 7, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Austrian Veit Dengler changes to the Bauer group management. In: derStandard.at . February 28, 2018, accessed March 1, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Rainer Himmelfreundpointner: How Veit Dengler co-founded the Neos and why he wants to become a minister . Article in the business magazine trend from September 19, 2013.
  7. ↑ NEOS Team: Veit Dengler - New Paths - NEOS . In: NEOS . June 18, 2013 ( neos.eu [accessed November 14, 2018]).
  8. ^ Bernhard Odehnal: The "Negro conglomerate" was too much even for its own party . In: Tages-Anzeiger from April 8, 2014.
  9. ↑ Veit Dengler , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 42/2013 of October 15, 2013, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
personal data
SURNAME Dengler, Veit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dengler, Veit V .; Dengler, Veit Valentin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian manager
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz