Corporate Responsibility

Senior Management

Peter Skulimma – Chief Digital Officer

Peter Skulimma is the former CEO of Berliner Verlag. Prior to this, he held positions as Managing Director of Germany's leading city magazine "Tip" and Head of Advertising Sales at Berliner Zeitung. In addition, as a co-founder of Berlin's biggest online portal "Berlinonline", he has been a member of its Supervisory Board since 1996 and Chairman since 2005.

Joop Munsterman – CEO Netherlands

Joop Munsterman was appointed CEO of Netherlands in May 2008. He is also the chairman of the Wegener Management Board and has worked for Wegener since 1974. After serving in a variety of managerial positions within the Wegener group, he was named director of the free door-to-door papers publisher Ooostelijke Weekbladpers in 1992. Subsequently he was named director of De Twentsche Courant Tubantia, and was appointed director of Wegener Huis-aan-huiskranten Oost, the group’s door-to-door papers unit in the eastern portion of the country, in 2001. Joop Munsterman has been general director of Wegener Huis-aan-HuisMedia BV since 2002.

Lisbeth Knudsen – CEO Denmark

Lisbeth Knudsen has more than 30 years of experience in print media as well as in digital media, radio and television, having held various editorial and senior commercial management positions.  Lisbeth Knudsen began her career at Berlingske Tidende, subsequently becoming Editor in Chief and CEO at another newspaper group in Denmark and News Director of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation.   In April 2007 she returned to Berlingske Tidende as Editor in Chief, and in November 2007 took on additional responsibilities as Mecom’s CEO for Denmark.  Lisbeth Knudsen is also chairman of the Board of the Danish School of Journalism.

Jan M.Moberg - CEO Norway

Jan M.Moberg has held various managerial positions within Orkla Media and Edda Media concentrating on digitial development projects. Previously, he has worked for several years as a Director of New Media in Telenor Internett, and holds broad editorial experience as a journalist and specialist editor in publications such as Kapital and Kapital Data.

Johan Boermann – CEO LMG

Johan Boermann has worked in the media industry for over 30 years, variously at Wegener Publishing Group, Wolters Kluwer, and as marketing director at KPN until 2002 when he joined MGL, part of LMG, as CEO.

Truls Velgaard – CEO Poland

Truls Velgaard started his career at Fredriksstad Blad as a journalist in 1979. He was appointed Editor-in-Chief and Managing Director of Fredriksstad Blad in 1991. Truls Velgaard joined Orkla Media in 1998 as Director for Region Ost, one of three regions within Orkla Media Norway. In August 2005, he made Director of Sales and Marketing competence in Orkla Media and he became CEO of Poland in August 2006.

Josef Depenbrock - CEO Germany

Josef Depenbrock was appointed CEO of Berliner Verlag in June 2007. From 2006 he was Chief Editor of the Berliner Zeitung and previously Chief Editor, CEO and shareholder of the Hamburger Morgenpost. He has extensive experience within the newspaper industry. From 1982 until 2000 he held various managerial and editorial positions including Chief Editor and Managing Director of Cash Medien AG, Leading Editor of Berliner Kurier, Editor in the Hamburg news department of the Bild and Editor in the local news department of Wesfalische Nachrichten, one of the leading papers in Nordrhein-Wesfalen.