Klaus Janke, Chief Editor of Horizont

Klaus Janke, born 1964, studied journalism and economy in Dortmund. From 1989 to 1993 Mr. Janke was editor and chief editor at the Prinz Ruhrgebiet, from 1993 to 1999 he was managing director and shareholder of Niehues + Janke Medienbüro in Essen. The following two years he worked as a chief editor for the Journal Frankfurt before he started in 2000 as a chief editor for the section Net Economy at Horizont, a German weekly journal about marketing, advertisement and communication.

Edgar Benkler, Managing Director of ProServ - Medien Service Gesellschaft mbH

Edgar Benkler graduated in business management and started working as a controller in business planning for a subsidiary firm of Siemens, Computer Gesellschaft Konstanz. He then changed into the publishing business as a publishing controller working for the Südkurier in Konstanz. After two years he took over the project leadership of all regional and transregional newspapers. Returning from a job in the New Economy he started in 2002 as a managing director to build up ProServ - Medien Service Gesellschaft. ProServ supports its shareholder, the publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck, in online, Internet and IT activities.

Jak Boumans, Senior Consultant at Electronic Media Reporting, The Netherlands

Jak Boumans (1945) works as a consultant at Electronic Media Reporting, a consultancy specialising in content strategy. From 1997 to 2000 he was a senior consultant with the TNO Centre for Technology and Policy Studies and responsible for the sector “Electronic Publishing”. Among others, Jak Boumans brought the first European daily newsletter online. He is presently involved in research on publishing for mobility and electronic books. Furthermore he is editor-in-chief of the Dutch trade newsletter Telecombrief. Jak Boumans has been a jury member for the EUROPRIX and is secretary of the European Academy of Digital Media since 2001.

Frank Klinkenberg, Managing Director of tecChannel

Frank Klinkenberg, born 1965, is managing director of tecChannel, a German webzine for products, news and trends in the data-processing industry. Before joining the IDG Interactive GmbH in 1999 he was deputy chief editor of the PC Magazin and responsible for the section “Hardware” at PC Professionell. After graduating with a degree in physics he started his journalistic career by working for “mc extra”, a supplement of the at that time DOS International.

Jens Löbbe, Consultant at Kirchner + Robrecht management consultants

Jens Löbbe, born in 1967,  started to work for Kirchner + Robrecht management consultants beginning of 2002. Before he was establishing the Internet activities of the publishing group Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ.NET). For this he was responsible for Internet products at the  F.A.Z. Electronic Media GmbH. Jens Löbbe has gained a rich set of experiences in the development of strategies and organisations for online products. Among others he achieved this as project manager of online-development at the publishers’ group Handelsblatt GmbH and when working for GENIOS. 

Alexander von Reibnitz, Head of the Departments Marketing and New Media at the German Magazine Publishers’ Association (VDZ)

Alexander von Reibnitz, born 1968, graduated from the University of Munich with a Master of Business Administration. He started his career as a Product Manager at Procter & Gamble in Frankfurt and London. After a senior consultancy with Gemini Consulting, Berlin Alexander von Reibnitz became Director International of the Internet-Start-up webmiles AG, Munich. Alexander von Reibnitz is currently managing the team New Media, in which all CEOs of the major German Online Publishing Houses participate. Their work focuses on projects like the optimisation of online business models.