Spiegel Online Managing Director new on Watson's Supervisory Board
Katharina Borchert, Managing Director of Spiegel Online, is a new member of the Board of Directors of the Zurich-based company Fixxpunkt, which publishes the news portal Watson.
A content and know-how partnership already exists between Watson and Spiegel Online. According to the press release, Katharina Borchert is a well-established digital expert. Before becoming Managing Director of Spiegel Online in 2010, she headed up the online business of the Essen-based WAZ Mediengruppe (now Funke Mediengruppe). Among other things, she developed the regional portal DerWesten.de for WAZ, of which she was also the first editor-in-chief. Katharina Borchert was appointed a member of the "Young Global Leaders" by the World Economic Forum in March 2011. She is also a member of the German Press Council and a board member of the Mozilla Corporation.
With the election of Katharina Borchert, the Fixxpunkt Board of Directors has grown to six members. The managing director of Spiegel Online joins as an independent online specialist. In addition to two representatives each from the major shareholders AZ Medien (Axel Wüstmann, Kaspar Hemmeler) and BT Holding (Peter Wanner, Florian Wanner), the founding shareholders of watson (Hansi Voigt) are also represented on the Board with one seat.
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