NZZ Media Solutions: New Head of Sales
Karin Carpentier will become Head of Sales at the NZZ Media Group. Effective September 1, 2014, she will take over the newly established central sales organization, NZZ Media Solutions. The Board of Directors has also appointed her to the Executive Board of the NZZ Media Group.
The NZZ Media Group's business-to-business (B2B) sales will be bundled in NZZ Media Solutions to make advertising sales more efficient and coordinate ad sales in print and online sales and with key customers, according to a statement. The core of the company is the advertising sales activities previously handled by Publicitas, which will be taken over by the NZZ Media Group as planned at the beginning of 2015.
43-year-old Karin Carpentier has many years of management experience in sales and customer management. At Thomson Reuters, she has held various management positions, assisting in the development of national and international sales organizations and making a significant contribution to positive business development. Most recently, she was responsible for the sales development of the sales specialists for the financial sector at the European level and simultaneously headed the Thomson Reuters company in Switzerland as Managing Director.
"Against the backdrop of falling circulation and declining advertising revenues, we need to significantly strengthen our sales organization. I am delighted that in Karin Carpentier we have gained an outstanding, qualified and experienced leader for this task," says Veit Dengler, CEO of the NZZ Media Group.
