Christian Kollmann
Chairman: communication matters – Austria.
Communication matters has been among the leading PR agencies in Austria since its foundation in 1999 by Christian Kollmann and Peter Menasse. The traditionally close contacts between Austria and the new EU member countries make communication matters an ideal partner for activities in these markets.
Anja Feuerabend
Director: Relatio PR and advicepartners.
Anja heads the operations of Relatio PR, based in Munich and Berlin and set up by herself in 1994. She is also the founder and general manager of advicepartners, a consultancy for strategic communication management, with offices in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and Berlin.
As relatio has specialist expertise in financial, hr and b2b PR, advicepartners has it s focus on support in political processes, crisis communication and -management and change communication and –management.
Anja learned her PR skills at Ketchum PR after having studied marketing communications, public relations and media marketing in Munich.
Lutz Cleffmann
Managing Director: ECCO Düsseldorf / EC Public Relations – Germany.
Lutz started his career as an editor with the Rheinische Post, Germanys second largest regional newspaper. He started his career in public relations with a company today known as Ketchum-Pleon. Thereafter, he headed up the public relations unit of SEA advertising agency which later became Citigate SEA.
Norbert Ofmadski
Managing director: On Board Group – Poland.
Has over 20 years experience in the public relations industry. He is a founder of and leads the On Board Group, one of the largest Polish consultancies specialised in integrated Public Relations and Social Media campaigns.