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As of July 1 of this year, Volker Greiner (46) will be Vice
President Commercial Operations North & Central Europe
of Emirates seated in Dubai. He succeeds Henry Hasselbarth,
who will go into retirement at that time. In his
current function as Emirates’ director of sales for Germany,
Greiner has been responsible for sales and marketing
since June 2000. Henry Hasselbarth, who had been responsible
for Northern and Central Europe at Emirates’
directorate in Frankfurt since 1994, will resign from that
position on August 31of this year but will stay active in this
particular industry as free-lance consultant and project
developer. Volker Greiner is a veteran in the international
aviation industry. After serving an apprenticeship as management
assistant in wholesale and foreign trade and
graduating in business management, he joined American
Airlines in Germany where he was assigned to Airport
Operations, Corporate Communications, and Sales. From
1998 to 2000, Volker Greiner held position sales manager
for German and Austrian corporate clients.
The two managing directors of Landesmesse Stuttgart
GmbH (LMS), Ulrich Kromer and Roland Bleinroth, will
both retain their positions in the trade show and expo
company. The federal state of Baden-Württemberg and
the city of Stuttgart each own 50% of the shares in LMS.
PEOPLE
At its most recent session, the LMS supervisory board
unanimously extended the two managing directors’ contracts
by another five years each. Ulrich Kromer (57),
spokeman of the board since 2006, will thus start his third
term in that position in May 2011; the second term for
Roland Bleinroth (47) will commence on January 1, 2011.
Mathias Schiemer (43) joined the Agentur marbet on
April 1 of this year; he will be responsible for New Business
& Sponsoring and in this function will expand sales
activities on the key account level. After five years in
senior promotional position with Pernod Ricard, Schiemer
from 1998 to 2010 collected considerable professional
experience as head of the event and sponsoring department
of the RTL Mediengruppe in Cologne. His new job
will take him back to the Rhine-Neckar region, where the
graduate in business administration will be marbet’s key
account manager in charge of new business & sponsoring.
Schiemer is delighted about this opportunity to return
to his home region and at the same time to take up an
interesting professional challenge. marbet is a subsidiary
of the Würth group in Künzelsau/Germany engaged in
events, incentives, and travel and currently employs approximately
110 persons in Germany, Italy, Spain and
Switzerland