New Chief Sales Officer Ringier Publishing
Ringier Publishing is appointing a new Chief Sales Officer: Arne Bergmann, 44, will assume the new position on April 1, 2016. Bergmann will hold the same position within the new, planned joint marketing organization of Ringier, SRG, and Swisscom.
Arne Bergmann is Managing Director Marketing Newspapers and previously Managing Director Marketing & Sales at the media marketing organization Media Impact of the publishing house Axel Springer and Funke Mediengruppe since October 2013. Prior to that, he was General Manager Marketing Magazines at Axel Springer for four years. Arne Bergmann began his career as a publishing specialist at Burda Verlag, became Advertising Sales Manager at Focus Magazin Verlag in 2000, and moved to Premiere Fernsehen GmbH as Advertising Sales Manager in 2003, where he became Director Advertising Sales, Vice President Media Solutions, and finally Managing Director Premium Media Solutions, a subsidiary of Premiere Fernsehen, in 2007.
Arne Bergmann will assume his new role as Chief Sales Officer CSO at Ringier Publishing on April 1, 2016. He and his team will thus be responsible for the marketing of all newspapers and magazines published by Ringier Switzerland and Axel Springer Switzerland, including their digital platforms. Bergmann succeeds Thomas Passen.
Within the new, planned marketing organization of Ringier, SRG and Swisscom, Arne Bergmann will assume the position of Chief Sales Officer, where he will be a member of the Executive Board headed by CEO Martin Schneider. As CSO, Bergmann will manage advertising sales of all inventories marketed by the planned JV.
