The Management

Norbert Ohl

COO
Joined ppi Media in 1991
Managing director since 1996

Areas of responsibility: Sales, customer projects, controlling and product managementmore

Greatest achievements at ppi Media: Under the direction of Norbert Ohl, ppi Media successfully entered one of the largest and fastest growing newspaper markets in the world – in the USA and India.

Professional career: Norbert Ohl graduated in Computer Science, with a major in Business Administration. He has worked at ppi Media since starting his career as a consultant there in 1991. Today he is a managing director and co-partner of the company.

Martin Ruhle

CTO
Joined ppi Media in 1984
Managing director since 1990

Areas of responsibility: Development, support, quality assurance, documentation and trainingmore

Greatest achievements at ppi Media: Martin Ruhle has guided and shaped ppi Media in all its phases, starting with the development of customized software solutions to the production of standard products for the international market.

Professional career: Martin Ruhle graduated in Information Technology, with a minor in Business Administration, at the University of Kiel. After completing his studies, he worked at Hamburger Hafen und Lagerhaus AG as a software developer in a number of different logistics projects for a period of three years. In 1984 he joined Pape+Partner Informationssysteme GmbH, which at the time was being set up, working as a consultant and software developer. For more than 25 years, Martin Ruhle has assumed different functions and tasks; in 1986 he became co-partner of ppi Media.

Markus Feldenkirchen

CEO ppi Media US, Inc.
Joined ppi Media in 1999
Member of the board of managers (USA) since 2005

Areas of responsibility: ppi Media USmore

Greatest achievements at ppi Media: Markus Feldenkirchen set up both the Consulting department at ppi Media and ppi Media US Inc.

Professional career: Markus Feldenkirchen completed his training to become a publishing house clerk and spent the first three years of his working life at Axel Springer. The different positions in the company took him to Berlin, where he worked as financial director at Berliner Wochenblatt. After switching to TMI Technik Management, Markus Feldenkirchen decided to join ppi Media in 1999, where he set up the Consulting department which he headed until 2005. The same year he moved to the ppi office in Chicago, where he heads a team of eight staff.