Archive for May, 2008
Torsten Ahlers to become CEO of wunderloop
Strengthening wunderloop’s technological leadership in Europe
Luxembourg, 29 May 2008 – Today wunderloop, the market leader in integrated behavioural advertising and content targeting, announced that Torsten Ahlers will become its Chief Executive Officer, effective 15 July 2008. In this newly established role, Ahlers will be responsible for directing the company’s operations, supported by the existing management team, which includes the founders Ulrich Hegge and Frank Conrad, and CFO Dr. Christoph Bauer.
“In Torsten Ahlers, we’ve gained one of the most high-profile and experienced Internet experts in Europe. As CEO, he will decisively help us tap the enormous market potential for a neutral technology and service provider like wunderloop, and contribute to our company’s continued success,” said Michael Kleindl, Chairman of wunderloop.
Ahlers joined AOL Germany, a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. in 2004, after holding positions at Tomorrow Focus, Gruner + Jahr and Axel Springer Verlag. As Managing Director, he was responsible for the company’s successful reorientation from Internet Service Provider to an advertising-financed online enterprise, and successfully guided it to profitability.
“At AOL, we already introduced wunderloop’s targeting technology very successfully across Europe,” said Torsten Ahlers. “I was particularly impressed by the broad applicability of wunderloop’s solutions, which provides support for multiple business models. wunderloop is the acknowledged world leader and I’m looking forward to developing that leadership even further.”
About wunderloop
wunderloop is Europe’s market leader in integrated real-time targeting technologies and services. The company’s unique Integrated Targeting Platform (ITP) consolidates users information collected by all relevant targeting variants for the analysis of online behaviour and is the basis for its solutions ‘wunderloop custom’ and ‘wunderloop connect’. Founded in 1999 by online advertising and technology pioneers, Ulrich Hegge and Frank Conrad, the company is headquartered in Luxembourg and has offices in Madrid, Milan, London, Paris, Amsterdam and Hamburg. Michael Kleindl is its chairman. The annual growth rate of the company is more than 300 per cent.
Renowned companies such as T-Com/T-Online, ad pepper media International N.V., AOL, G+J Electronic Media Services, Freenet, Tiscali, CondeNast, Mondadori Digital Publishing, Orange SBS TV and Ilse Media rely on wunderloop technology to deliver the right advertising, content and product offers at the right time. wunderloop is also a leading proponent of consumer privacy and, in recognition of this, has received unrestricted approval from the German data protection authority, TÜV Rhineland, for their conformation to data privacy legislation.
Well-known investors led by Atomico Investments, co-founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis (co-founders of Skype and Joost), and Klaus Hommels “European Angel Investor of 2006”, along with Bernd M. Michael, Chairman of Grey Advertising, Christiane zu Salm, board member of Burda Publishing, have provided funding for wunderloop’s international expansion and product development.
Contact
wunderloop media services GmbH
Carolin Schneider
E: presse[at]wunderloop.com
T: 49 (0) 40 43 207 875
F: 49 (0) 40 43 207 799
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