Klaus-Peter Schulenberg

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Klaus-Peter Schulenberg has been active in the entertainment industry for more than 45 years. While still a student, he founded an artist management and event agency that organised concerts by Alice Cooper and the Rolling Stones in Germany. After founding and acquiring various other companies in the event industry, Schulenberg acquired the ticketing company CTS in 1996. In 2000, the company went public as CTS EVENTIM AG, and Schulenberg, as its largest shareholder and CEO, continues to be formative in its successful development into one of the world’s leading providers of ticketing and live entertainment. As Chairman of the Management Board, Schulenberg’s responsibilities include Corporate Strategy and Development, e-Commerce, Legal Affairs, Human Resources, and Communications.

Holger Hohrein

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Holger Hohrein (born 1971) graduated in business administration before launching his career at McKinsey, where he advised financial services providers on strategic treasury and risk management issues. After nine years with the management consultancy, he moved to a listed online bank, comdirect, in 2008. It was here in 2013 that Hohrein was promoted to the board of managing directors as CFO with responsibility for IT, corporate strategy, business development and innovation management. In 2017, his career then took him to the Hamburg-based fintech company Deposit Solutions, where as COO he was responsible for the company’s international expansion and for platform development. From 2020, Hohrein was CFO and CRO at the financial services provider PEAC Finance, where he focused on transitioning the firm’s business model to one of a deposit-taking bank and implementing pan-European transformation projects.

Alexander Ruoff

Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Alexander Ruoff became a member of the Management Board of CTS EVENTIM AG in July 2002. A graduate in business administration, his career led him to the Bremen-based Messerknecht Group in 1993, first as Director of Messerknecht CIM Consulting und Vertriebs GmbH, and later as Managing Partner of Messerknecht-Meister Informationssysteme GmbH and its subsidiaries Showsoft (ticketing) and Cargosoft (logistics). Shortly after the acquisition of Showsoft GmbH by the EVENTIM Group in 2001, Ruoff was appointed to the Management Board of CTS EVENTIM AG. As Chief Operating Officer, Ruoff is responsible for Sales, Marketing, IT, and International Business Development.

Dr Bernd Kundrun, Hamburg

Managing shareholder of Start 2 Ventures GmbH, Hamburg

• Member of the Supervisory Board of CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA since November 2010

(Date: 15 June 2023)

Personal details

• Year of birth: 1957
• Place of birth: Wuppertal
• Nationality: German

Education

• 1977-1982 Studied business administration at the University of Münster
• 1982-1984 Studied business administration at the University of Innsbruck

Professional career

• 1984-1993 Bertelsmann Club GmbH (most recently as manager)
• 1993-1997 Premiere Medien GmbH (manager)
• 1997-2009 Gruner + Jahr (most recently as CEO)
• 2000-2009 Bertelsmann AG (member of the Management Board)
• since 2009 Start 2 Ventures GmbH (managing shareholder)

Membership of statutory Supervisory Boards in Germany

• CTS EVENTIM AG & Co. KGaA (Chairman of the Supervisory Board)
• EVENTIM Management AG (Chairman of the Supervisory Board)

Membership of similar supervisory committees

• NZZ AG, Zurich, Switzerland (Supervisory Board)
• Gut.org Gemeinnützige AG, Berlin (Honorary Chairman)
• Gilde Buy Out Partners AG, Zurich/CH (member of the Advisory Board)
• Caseking GmbH, Berlin (Chairman of the Advisory Board)

Dr Cornelius Baur, Munich

CEO - European Healthcare Acquisition and Growth Company B.V.

• Member of the Supervisory Board of CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA since May 2022

(Date: 15 June 2023)

Personal data

• Year of birth: 1962
• Birthplace: Munich
• Nationality: German

Training

• 1981 - 1983: Headquarters apprenticeship as industrial clerk, Siemens AG
• 1983 - 1987: Studies in Business Administration, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
• 1987 - 1990: Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) at the Chair of Information, Organisation and Management at the LMU, Munich

Professional career

• 1987 - 1990: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Assistant at the Chair of Information, Organisation and Management
• 1990 - 2021: McKinsey & Company Inc.; most recently Managing Partner Germany & Austria (2014-2021) and member of the global Executive Board; 6 years member of the global Supervisory Board at McKinsey, including 3 years as Chairman of the global Finance Committee
• Since Nov. 2021 European Healthcare Acquisition and Growth Company B.V. (Chairman of the Board)

Membership in domestic supervisory boards to be formed by law

• CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA (Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board)
• EVENTIM Management AG (Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Membership in comparable supervisory bodies

• Member of the Nomination Committee B&C Industrieholding

Dr Juliane Schulenberg, Hamburg

Government Director at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

• Member of the Supervisory Board of CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA since May 2016

(Date: 15 June 2023)

Personal information

• Year of birth: 1977
• Place of birth: Delmenhorst
• Nationality: German

Training

• 1998-2003: Law studies, University of Hamburg
• 2003-2007: Doctorate in International Law, University of Hamburg
• 2005-2008: Traineeship, Hanseatic Higher Regional Court, Hamburg

Professional career

• 2008-2010: Desk officer at the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Since 2010: Desk officer at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, 2015 to 2021 seconded to the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the EU

Membership in domestic supervisory boards to be formed by law

• CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA (Member of the Supervisory Board)
• EVENTIM Management AG (Member of the Supervisory Board)

Membership in comparable supervisory bodies  

• none

Philipp Westermeyer, Hamburg

Managing shareholder of ramp106 GmbH, Hamburg

• Member of the Supervisory Board of CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA since May

(Date: 15 June 2023)

Personal details

• Year of birth: 1979
• Place of birth: Essen
• Nationality: German

Education

• 1999 - 2003 Business administration studies in Dortmund, Paris and Quebec
• 2003 - 2005 Business administration studies and Media studies in Hamburg

Professional career

• 2005 - 2007 Assistant to the Supervisory Board Chairman of Gruner & Jahr AG
• 2007 - 2008 Investment manager at Gruner & Jahr New Media Ventures
• 2009 - 2015 Establishment and growth of various companies in the field of digital marketing and technology
• since 2016 ramp106 GmbH (Managing Director)

Membership of statutory Supervisory Boards in Germany

• CTS EVENTIM AG & Co. KGaA 
• EVENTIM Management AG

Membership of similar supervisory committees

• Member of the Board of Trustees of HASPA Finanzholding
• Member of the Management Board of Hamburg Media School Stiftung