CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA
- ISIN DE0005470306
- Country Deutschland
Company profile
CTS EVENTIM is a leading international provider of ticketing services and live entertainment. Over 300 million tickets per year are marketed using the Company’s systems – through physical box offices and mobile/online portals. These portals include the brands eventim.de, oeticket.com, ticketcorner.ch, ticketone.it and entradas.com. The CTS EVENTIM Group also owns a number of companies promoting concerts, tours, and festivals such as Rock am Ring, Rock im Park, Hurricane, Southside, and Lucca Summer. According to Pollstar’s global rankings for 2023, the EVENTIM Group is the second-biggest promoter in the world. In addition, CTS EVENTIM operates some of Europe’s most renowned venues, such as the LANXESS Arena in Cologne, the K.B. Hallen in Copenhagen, the Waldbühne in Berlin, and the EVENTIM Apollo in London. CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA (ISIN DE 0005470306) has been listed on the stock exchange since 2000 and is a member of the MDAX segment. In 2023, the Group generated revenue of EUR 2.4 billion across more than 20 countries.
Management
Klaus-Peter Schulenberg
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
Klaus-Peter Schulenberg has been active in the entertainment industry for more than 45 years. While still a student, he founded an artist management and event agency that organised concerts by Alice Cooper and the Rolling Stones in Germany. After founding and acquiring various other companies in the event industry, Schulenberg acquired the ticketing company CTS in 1996. In 2000, the company went public as CTS EVENTIM AG, and Schulenberg, as its largest shareholder and CEO, continues to be formative in its successful development into one of the world’s leading providers of ticketing and live entertainment. As Chairman of the Management Board, Schulenberg’s responsibilities include Corporate Strategy and Development, e-Commerce, Legal Affairs, Human Resources, and Communications.
Alexander Ruoff
COO (Chief Operating Officer)
Alexander Ruoff became a member of the Management Board of CTS EVENTIM AG in July 2002. A graduate in business administration, his career led him to the Bremen-based Messerknecht Group in 1993, first as Director of Messerknecht CIM Consulting und Vertriebs GmbH, and later as Managing Partner of Messerknecht-Meister Informationssysteme GmbH and its subsidiaries Showsoft (ticketing) and Cargosoft (logistics). Shortly after the acquisition of Showsoft GmbH by the EVENTIM Group in 2001, Ruoff was appointed to the Management Board of CTS EVENTIM AG. As Chief Operating Officer, Ruoff is responsible for Sales, Marketing, IT, and International Business Development.
Holger Hohrein
CFO (Chief Financial Officer)
Holger Hohrein (born 1971) graduated in business administration before launching his career at McKinsey, where he advised financial services providers on strategic treasury and risk management issues. After nine years with the management consultancy, he moved to a listed online bank, comdirect, in 2008. It was here in 2013 that Hohrein was promoted to the board of managing directors as CFO with responsibility for IT, corporate strategy, business development and innovation management. In 2017, his career then took him to the Hamburg-based fintech company Deposit Solutions, where as COO he was responsible for the company’s international expansion and for platform development. From 2020, Hohrein was CFO and CRO at the financial services provider PEAC Finance, where he focused on transitioning the firm’s business model to one of a deposit-taking bank and implementing pan-European transformation projects.
IR contact
Marco Haeckermann
Vice President Corporate Development & Strategy
Tel.: +49 421 3666 270
marco.haeckermann@eventim.de