New Director & Head of Media Relations comes from Deutsche Bank AG
Andreas Bartels (36) has been appointed the new Director & Head of Media Relations at Deutsche Lufthansa AG, effective 1 January 2007. In this position he will be responsible for the management and coordination of the Lufthansa Group’s press activities worldwide.
Bartels succeeds Thomas Ellerbeck (39), who assumed the position of Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications & Government Relations at Vodafone D2 GmbH in Dusseldorf on 1 October 2006. Andreas Bartels will report to Klaus Walther, Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Communications.
„We are delighted to have secured Andreas Bartels for this post. He has a proven track record in communications and has gained a wide range of experience in this field, both at the associational level and in a global corporation,“ Klaus Walther said, commenting on his appointment.
[GADS_NEWS]After training as a banker and completing a degree in media studies, Andreas Bartels was appointed press spokesman at the Niedersächsischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband in Hanover and subsequently at comdirekt bank AG, Quickborn. In 2002 he moved to Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, where he worked in Corporate Communications. Latterly he was appointed as Director and Head of press and media relations in the Private and Business Clients division.