Peter Hogenkamp leaves the NZZ
Peter Hogenkamp, Head of Digital Media, is leaving the NZZ Media Group effective December 1, 2013. One year after the NZZ became the first Swiss daily newspaper to introduce a paywall for NZZ.ch in 2012, he wishes to return to a more entrepreneurial role.
Until his successor is appointed, the Digital Media division will be headed directly by CEO Veit Dengler. Peter Hogenkamp had joined the NZZ Media Group in August 2010 and became a member of the Executive Board one year later. Since then, he has positively influenced and changed the company's online strategy. In the last three years, thanks to his efforts, among other things, the Group's news portals were combined to form NZZnetz, NZZ.ch was redesigned, the e-paper was very successfully further developed, and the webpaper was launched in 2012. Peter Hogenkamp: "After the final spurt, I am looking forward to a few months off and then to new challenges. In this exciting time of permanent change, you never run out of work."
On behalf of the Board of Directors and the Executive Board, Veit Dengler thanked Peter Hogenkamp in a statement for his achievements: "Thanks to his knowledge and experience, Peter Hogenkamp has given decisive impetus to the NZZ digital strategy. We regret Peter Hogenkamp's departure and wish him all the best for the future."
Peter Hogenkamp studied information management at the University of St. Gallen. Before joining the NZZ Media Group, he worked almost exclusively in an entrepreneurial capacity. In 2000, he co-founded Zeix, an agency for usability and user education, now the Swiss market leader in this field. For several years thereafter, he was Managing Director of Blogwerk, an online publisher and agency active in the field of social media, which was sold to the German Weka Group in 2011.
