Managing Director Kai Gerwig leaves News Aktuell

Kai Gerwig, Managing Director of News Aktuell, is leaving the company at his own request in the course of September 2018. After 18 years, first in various sales and later management positions at News Aktuell, he would like to take on new professional challenges outside the company once again. On an interim basis, Eljub Ramic, Deputy Managing Director at News Aktuell, will take over. In the coming months, Kai Gerwig will continue to support the company in an advisory capacity.

Kai Gerwig started in the fall of 2000, initially as a newsdesk employee in the then newly founded company. In 2003, he moved to the sales team. He quickly developed into a mainstay of the company, which is why the Board of Directors appointed him to the Executive Board as Deputy Managing Director in 2005. In the following three years, Kai Gerwig was responsible for substantial customer relations nationwide as Key Account Manager and at the same time planned the marketing and communication activities at News Aktuell in Switzerland. On March 1, 2008, the Board of Directors promoted him to Managing Director. Under his leadership, News Aktuell also acquired the company Edition Renteria (then publisher of the Swiss PR and media directory) in 2013, with which News Aktuell decisively expanded its market leadership among PR service providers.

"Kai Gerwig was already part of the founding team of News Aktuell in Switzerland and has made a decisive contribution to the economic success of the company in various positions during his approximately 18 years with the company. Under his leadership, the company developed into the Swiss market leader for the publication of PR content," says Peter Kropsch, Chairman of the DPA Management Board. "We thank Kai Gerwig for his great commitment and wish him all the best for his professional and personal future."

"I am leaving with both a crying and a laughing eye. On the one hand, I am very proud that I was able to work for and shape this great company for so many years. And on the other hand, I am simply looking forward to change and new things," explains Kai Gerwig.

Eljub Ramic, deputy managing director at News Aktuell, is taking over on an interim basis. Ramic joined the company in August 2010 as Key Account Manager and has since been responsible for the positioning and further development of the PR software renteria. In April 2017, he was appointed Deputy Managing Director by the Board of Directors.