Bernd Schiphorst
The economics graduate Bernd Schiphorst has been a member of the Supervisory Board of ZEAL since June 2013. He was previously an Executive Board member and Senior Consultant of WMP EuroCom AG in Berlin. From 1979 onwards, he spent over two decades working for Bertelsmann, initially as Head of the Executive Affairs Office and Press Spokesperson of the magazine subsidiary Gruner + Jahr AG & Co, was then heavily involved as head of Ufa Film- und Fernseh GmbH with the establishment of commercial television (including RTL, Vox, Sky, Sportfive) and radio (Antenne Bayern, Radio Hamburg) and as President and CEO of AOL Europe and Bertelsmann New Media with the introduction of digital media. In 2000, he briefly entered the world of politics as Media Advisor for the states of Berlin and Brandenburg. After completing his studies in economics, politics and publishing in Berlin,Bernd Schiphorst began his career as Managing Director and Member of the Executive Board of märkte & medien Verlag.
