Detlef Braun
Member of the Board of Management

Since October, 2004 
Member of the Board of Management of Messe Frankfurt GmbH. 

2000 - 2003 
Chairman & CEO Central and Northern Europe at international advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, Frankfurt am Main, a subsidiary of the WPP Group, the world's third-largest agency network. 1998 - 2000 Managing Director of Joop GmbH, Hamburg. 

1993 - 1998 
Lancaster Group Worldwide Vice President, International Marketing, Paris; Managing Director Marketing, Germany. 

1985 - 1993 
Philip Morris Inc., Munich, New York, Tokyo; most recently Marketing Manager Product Group Marlboro. 

Studied at the European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel, graduated with a degree in business management majoring in marketing and sales. 

* Born on 27th. February, 1960 in Michelstadt/Odenwald, single.