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Speaker Info
7th Interactive Publishing Europe Conference '00
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Werner Lauff, Germany
CEO Bertelsmann Broadband Group
Sessions:
Speaker at
Broadband Futures
Bio:
experience:
INTERACTIVE TELEVISION/BROADBAND APPLICATIONS
(since 1999)
Bertelsmann Broadband Group Hamburg (President and CEO)
TELEVISION
(1993 — 1998)
Westfilm Medien, Essen (Chief Executive Officer)
Teuto TELE, Bielefeld (Chief Executive Officer)
D&D Entertainment Group, Brussels (Member of the Board of Directors)
BW TV, Guetersloh (Chief Executive Officer)
RTL Television, Cologne (Member of the Board of Directors)
Responsible for all TV activities of the WAZ-Group with a combined revenue of $280M in 1997.
Strengthened the strategic position of the group in the Electronic Media Market and made the highly deficit operations profitable within five years: - Widened the groups TV engagements into the fields of Electronic News Gathering (teuto TELE) and Entertainment Production (D&D Entertainment Group) improving vertical integration and streamlining operations.
- Founded a $250 M joint-venture with Bertelsmann AG (BW TV) increasing the companies stake in RTL Television to 50,1%
- Instituted BW TV as a 50% shareholder in CLT/UFA and merged Westfilm and teuto TELE into this new venture (WAZ-stake valued at $550 M) resulting in a significant gain of influence on the European Free, Pay- and Interactive-TV-Market for the WAZ-Group.
ONLINE
(1996 — 1998)
Cityweb Online, Essen (Chief Executive Officer)
Cityweb Network, Essen/Hamburg (Member of the Board of Directors) - Created a regional online-service for the Rhineland-area (Cityweb) outperforming all other online-services in this area in terms of members within the first 18 months.
- Merged Cityweb successfully into a $30 M venture with Axel Springer AG and Bertelsmann (Cityweb Network) extending its activities to other major cities.
BROADCASTING
(1990 — 1998)
Radio NRW (Member of the Board of Directors, 1990-1998)
Pressefunk Nordrhein-Westfalen (Chairman of the Board of Directors, 1993-1998)
- Formed a corporation (Radio NRW) aimed to produce a state-wide skeleton-broadcast and execute the national ad-selling .
- Successfully finalized agreements between Radio NRW and all of the 46 local broadcasting stations
education
LAW
University of Muenster (Law School)
University of Bonn (Law School, Bar-Examination in 1985)
JOURNALISM
Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, Bonn (Scholarship)
Centre de Formation et de Perfectionnement des Journalistes, Paris (One-year journalistic study)
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