Management Board
The extended management board includes the divisional heads of NürnbergMesse:
PETER OTTMANN
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Peter Ottmann (b. 1966) has been CEO of NürnbergMesse since 2011.
Peter Ottmann has been working for NürnbergMesse since 1994. First as press spokesman (from 1997), then as a member of the management (from 2005).
Peter Ottmann is also the first deputy chairman of AUMA (Association of the German Trade Fair Industry), a member of the board of the Association of German Trade Fairs (GDG) and a member of the board of the International Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI).
Peter Ottmann is also an honorary member of the Nuremberg Chamber of Industry and Commerce for Middle Franconia and the Italian Chamber of Commerce Munich-Stuttgart.
DIRK BLUM
Member of the Executive Board
Dirk Blum (b. 1965) has been Senior Vice President Finance & Facility since 2023.
Dirk Blum has been a member of NürnbergMesse management as CFO since 2004. He joined the Executive Board in 2023, where he is Senior Vice President Finance & Facility.
He represents NürnbergMesse as a member of the Board of Directors, Supervisory Board member, or company representative at the subsidiaries FORUM S.A., NürnbergMesse China, NürnbergMesse Brasil, NürnbergMesse India, Holtmann, Lehrieder and also MedtechLIVE and AMA Service.
The financial expert began his career by earning a degree in business administration and training in banking and tax consulting. He has a total of about 30 years of management experience, 25 of them as a unit manager.
PETRA WOLF
Member of the Executive Board
Petra Wolf (b. 1971) has been Senior Vice President Product Management since 2023.
Petra Wolf loves trade fairs – they’re something she lives for. She’s been with NürnbergMesse since 1997, and has been a member of the Executive Board since 2023 as Senior Vice President Product Management, with responsibilities for all the company’s own events and those held by partners and guests at the Nuremberg exhibition site.
Wolf is also active as a mentor in NürnbergMesse’s JUMP executive training programme. She is Chairwoman of the subsidiaries NürnbergMesse Brasil and NürnbergMesse India, and of German subsidiaries NürnbergMesse Service GmbH and NürnbergMesse Beteiligungs-GmbH, as well as MedtechLive GmbH.
Petra Wolf studied in Bamberg at the Faculty of Humanities at the Otto Friedrich University.
She has more than 20 years of management experience - since 2009 as a Vice President.
MARTIN KASSUBEK
Member of the Executive Board
Martin Kassubek (b. 1981) has been Senior Vice President Business Development since 2023.
Kassubek’s world is digital. He’s been with NürnbergMesse since 2012, and has been a member of the Executive Board as Senior Vice President Business Development since 2023.
He is a member of the Digital Board he founded at NürnbergMesse, serves as a mentor for ZOLLHOF start-ups, and is also involved in the Digital Partner Network he established – an association of all digital partner firms of NürnbergMesse.
The native of Lower Saxony completed his undergraduate studies and earned his doctorate in the Economics Faculty at Leibniz University in Hannover. Following that, he took part in the Executive Leadership Program at Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS).