Professor Dr. Klaus L. Wübbenhorst

Professor Dr. Klaus L. Wübbenhorst

Chairman of the Management Board (CEO), responsible for GfK Group strategy, international audit, methods and product development, Corporate Communications and IT Services

Career 

Since 1998 Spokesman and since 1999 Chief Executive Officer of GfK AG, appointment until 2012

Since 2005 President of IHK Nuremberg für Mittelfranken

1992 - 1997  Member of the Management Board of GfK AG, Nuremberg; responsible for the following departments: accounts, finance, controlling, personnel, purchasing, general administration, minority shareholdings, production, IT, data processing

1991 - 1992 Member of the Management Board of KBA-Planeta AG, Radebeul nr. Dresden

1984 - 1991 With Bertelsmann AG, Gütersloh, becoming Managing Director of printers and publishers Wiener Verlag Ges.mbH Nfg. KG, Himberg nr. Vienna

Education

2005 Appointment to honorary professor at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

1984 Completed PhD at Technical University of Darmstadt with title Dr. rer. pol.

1981 Graduated from the University of Essen as Diplomkaufmann 

Management Board